Nov 14, 2014 04:49 PM
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Battle scars does not leave an old man battered, It endures him to become a complete automaton.Then comes the "period of life", which we humans have to face.His only enemy becomes time and you wonder in complete amazement whether the giant clock can stop this man's prolonged euphoria? Whether the strings on him will cease from the movement of the hands? This man was once a tyke, then a sprinter, then a war veteran and finally honor, respect and valor fell behind him in every aspect. As he used to do with ardent emotions and exuberant acceleration.Embolden approach in the sky with uplift. Wedging against men who knew too much about firearms.Still, his resilience never faded away.Though he struggled outright with the mind like every hero.His actions didn't dictate its severity.Slowly but surely, you could here the tick and tock and everything around him just vanished.He is no more with us but, his story is still legend and his livelihood ushered as the man he was who suffered two hundred and twenty punches, man he was who laid with the dead and "agents of death" and at the end became a chapped lipped POW.Does he regret all this? No! no! Does he ask why god punished him? An absolute No! He only asked if god could let him feel the burning grass around his toe, the touch of cutting wind and the roar of an enormous crowd that showered love for him one more time before the final rest.So, that he could touch the setting sun or go as nearer as possible.He didn't reach the sunset instead, he reached our hearts.The story as named by Laura Hillenbrand "Unbroken" the one who needs a push for the jolt without breaking, the one who replenishes through grotesque outcomes remaining intact and finally someone who doesn't break memory through cruelty and suffering.Louis Zamperini had many character traits! Among them these where my favorites.His biography is not only awe-inspiring.His personality still dictates in us,"If Zamperini could do it! I could do it!" .That thrust,that swollen face and commanding personality standing.This was Louis Zamperini. He creates lives and craves it.
It was January 26, 1917, Olean, New York, Italian immigrants Anthony Zamperini and Louise Dossi became parents to a tiny butch.He was named as Louis Zamperini. Right from his childhood days when his parents shifted to Torrance California.He became an apprentice of naughtiness snitching pies from pantries,messing up bloated bullies and scampering into the bushes thereby justifying his tag as the "troublemaker",this was his main game.Albeit,he wasn't alone!His brother was the swiftest and fastest mover at his time.There was no catching Pete Zamperini,once he had done something drastic.For this reason he was an exquisite hider.Louie had two sisters as well, Sylvia and Virginia,who helped their mother(Louise) with her homework.While,father(Anthony) tried to bring prosperity under their abode with laboring.Pete was so efficient that not a single word ever penetrated his father's eardrums.However,Louie was no exception.No matter how nicely he planned it! Word always anguished his pop handing him a spanking and leaving a swollen buttock.Louie tolerated enough and he learned it from his father who taught him boxing and never to die down."My brother always inspired me" as said by Louie.He basked courage in him to such an extent that he started running like his sibling, participating in 100 meter races, then 200 meter until he was out of breath leaving individuals behind blazing through the finish line.As time descended Louie's pace enhanced along the progressing years.Granting himself a place on the 1500 meter flat race in the Berlin Olympics of 1936.How did Louie pan out?Can't say that! Since,I don't like spoilers. I can tell you this 4 years later Japan hosted the Olympics of 1940 but,Louie couldn't participate.Oh! don't worry many others also couldn't participate.It was not a disease outbreak! It was some thing bigger.The second world-war had erupted. Racing took a backtrack as Louie Zamperini got enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in September 1941 and earned a commission as a second lieutenant. He was deployed to the Pacific island of Funafuti as a bombardier on the B-24 Liberator bomber Super Man. In April, 1943, during a bombing mission against the Japanese held island of Nauru, the plane was badly damaged in combat. With Super Man no longer flight-worthy,Louie and his crew were transferred to Hawaii to await reassignment. Zamperini, along with some other former Super Man crew were assigned to conduct a search for a lost aircraft and crew. They were given another B-24, The Green Hornet, notorious among the pilots as a defective "lemon plane" was proven right.While searching due to mechanical difficulties the plane crashed into the ocean 850 miles south of Oahu.Placing Louie and his crew on the platter for famished great whites and twirling or whirl winding typhoons. Did anyone survive? Still,can't say!.Louie set himself adrift the barren ocean with little or no food for 47 days before getting captured and held captive by the Japanese navy.In captivity,Louie was severely beaten and mistreated until the end of the war in August 1945.He got to meet faces that seldom took him to hell.Before,finally returning home for the final chapter of his voyage.In 1946, he married Cynthia Applewhite, to whom he remained married until her death in 2001.Louie lost many friends and family.Soon,giving up the never give up! attitude and succumbing to pneumonia in July,2014.
Foundations have been named after this phenomenon.Books are narrated in his memory.Then why should a film be left behind.Unbroken is adapted into a film directed by non other then Angelina Jolie and produced by the Coen brothers.In parts the anecdote soars through heightened difficulties.Some of which are so dismal,it can evoke the agony inside you.It also has parts where the sickness as scribbled and depicted by Laura Hillenbrand will require Dramamine.This is the portion I thought didn't need so much emphasis.Probably,because I cannot imagine the pain felt during this quest by the great man. In spite of all this, Unbroken is a bookworm's feeder that won't let them down.
If not for relishment,read it for remembrance.
