re: Billy Graham RIP

One of the best stories concerning Billy Graham that I have read was in Unbroken.

Unbroken is the story of Louis Zamperini and all you should read it if you have not. Zamperini was a juvenile delinquent that went on to become an Olympian, a navigator in WWII, a three year POW fo the Japanese and the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's great book "Unbroken".

When Zamperini returned to California after WWII his athletic career was ruined from the harsh treatment he endured as POW. He started drinking a lot--like a fifth a day-- smoked a lot and beat his wife. At wits end his wife suggested he attended a tent revival of Graham's. He went and that was the last time he drank--the last time he smoked and he became a model husband. He died at age 96 just a year or so ago.

Strong stuff there.

The book is about his life and story about Graham is at the end. The man faced death time and time again and finally redemption after being moved at a Graham revival.