Thursday, July 03, 2014

Louis Zamperini Has Died

Louis Zamperini, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic track and field team who survived repeated torture for two years as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, died Wednesday from pneumonia at the age of 97. A film entitled Unbroken, about his life and directed by Angelina Jolie is set to be released on Christmas Day.

20 comments:

  1. :( rip, mr zamperini

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  2. Ah man, too bad he couldn't hon til tbe release. Sounds like he was quite a man!!

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  3. Some of the emo pussies running around today should be time warped back to the 30s and toughened up. If you took the crop of 18-25 y/o we have today and put them in WW1 or WW2, we'd all be speaking German.

    RIP Hero.

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  4. That book was amazing. RIP.

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  5. Awww, look at his sweet face. RIP dude.

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  6. A true hero and inspiration. RIP.

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  7. Count, you made me spit up my coffee! +1.

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  8. Unbroken was a terrific book. I don't know if I'll watch the movie, but the book was great. RIP Louis Z.

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  9. RIP Louis, he was a good close friend of my stepdads. His name will live on forever in Torrance, California where our airport was named after him (My home town)

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  10. @Guido: Fapping aint the only reason to saran wrap yer keyboard when I'm around.

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  11. RIP Louis Zamperini. I'm glad your story is being told-you were a great inspiration... &,@Count J., boy, you DO make me smile so, thanks for that!!

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  12. Once again, Count is the voice of reason!

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  13. RIP Louis Zamperini: “All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.”

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  14. That's a great quote, @TinselSass.

    Some people are just...not like the others. All we can do is watch and, hopefully, learn.

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  15. This man's life was so extraordinary, I kind of figured he'd just keep on trucking past 100. Rip, what an amazing man.

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  16. I was hoping he would last a few months more but, still, living to 97 is another of Louis's great achievements. Angelina said he did see some of the movie footage. I hope he liked what he saw.

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  17. RIP.

    Regarding to Jerkula's statement, this guy fought in the Pacific against the Japanese. You would be speaking that harder to learn than German besides.
    Anyway, learning German is always a good option (I know I should learn English or whatever language you write first, but that's my two cents).

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  18. RIP. The movie will probably be really good.

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