Inspirational stories: Unbroken
Louis Zamperini's life is an incredibly inspirational story. Equipped with a few cans of drinking water, some fishing lines and very little food, Zamparini and two other soldiers remain in the Pacific Ocean for 47 days. They have to face sharks, hot weather conditions and Japanese fighters. For most people, an experience like that would undoubtedly be the most challenging of their lives. For Zamperini, it was only the beginning of a steep path that led him to overcome his most remote fears. Louis Zamperini had some tough starts as a boy. Then the passion for the sports kept him out of troubles for a while. In 1934 in the United States he established the National High School record for the mile with a time of 4:21,3 conferring him a scholarship with the University of Southern California, beginning the training for the Olympics of 1936. At the Berlin Olympics, Zamperini arrived eighth in the 5k but managed to make the last lap in 56 seconds establishing a record that had no precede...