Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner who survived a plane crash, weeks adrift on a raft in the Pacific, and brutal treatment in Japanese prison camps during World War II. He came home a hero, but inside he was eaten up with nightmares, drinking, and dreams of strangling his old guards, and his marriage was falling apart. In 1949 his wife finally got him to a Billy Graham tent meeting in Los Angeles, and he remembered the promises he had made to God on that raft. He gave his life to Christ, and he said the nightmares stopped. Later he went back to Japan, sought out his former captors, and told them he forgave them.
