Louis Zamperini
Louis Zamperini
Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperiniwas a US prisoner of war survivor in World War II, a Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth26 January 1917
CityOlean, NY
CountryUnited States of America
society
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.
came forgot god home main prison promises seek serve wrapped
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.
grade
I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.
experience highest human knowing plane
I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!
hates hits misses
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.
hate poison ifs
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
love-you family-love world
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
lucky mystery
I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.
given
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
army air fields
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
war exercise people
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.
new-york names race
The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.