On his return home, Zamperini became an out of control alcoholic and his marriage began to fail until he went to hear Billy Graham speak in Los Angeles in October 1949. This completely changed his life.
He stopped drinking and repaired his marriage. Even more, he forgave his Japanese captors for all the horrible things they had done to him. The only one to refuse to see him was "The Bird." Mr. Zamperini devoted himself to his new faith and founded the Victory Boys camp for troubled youth.
In 1998, at the Nagano Olympics in Japan, he carried the Olympic torch past one of his former POW camps. He was active until the end of his life until he died this past July 2, 2014, of pneumonia at age 97. Before his death, he had a special visitor, Director of his story "Unbroken" Angelina Jolie who showed him some scenes from her unfinished movie about him.
A True G.G.. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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