there have been threads on it a few months ago. Try the search function if you're curious about what others thought.
have you been living in a cave?
The OP may be unaware. But let's not allow this to cloud our giant respect for Lou Zamperini, a truly great hero in an age when there are few to be found. His story is surely one of amazing that could be told by, or about, any living person.
The guy shook hands with Hitler. He was in the stadium with Jesse Owens. There are very few people left who could claim those. Never mind the shootdown and the 47 days adrift on the raft, the prison camp, alcohol, the PTSD demons and so on.
Remember, the mzungu may not be hard now. But Lou Zamperini demonstrates it was not always so. Contesting the Olympic 5k was one of the least challenging things he has accomplished in his lifetime! And beyond the triumph of the human spirit, he gives us hope that that maybe the mzungu will be hard again.
I salute him whenever I pass Zamperini Field. It makes me smile to know that this dedication was performed while he was assumed to be dead, in 1945. And yet he came back - and he's here now! Phenomenal.
Search YouTube for the CBS special that was done on Mr. Zamperini for the 1998 Nagano Games.