Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience & Redemption

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache.

“Cara mamma mia,”

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness

They were, as Coleridge wrote, “as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”

He found himself thinking of Pete, and of something that he had said as they had sat on their bed years earlier: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.