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either way, boys who arrived at Victory as ruffians often left it renewed and reformed.
ocean. Concerned that accepting fat honoraria would discourage schools and small groups from asking him to speak, he declined anything over modest fees.
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him a laughing equanimity even in hard times.
“There were two people inside me,” he continued. “One that followed military orders, and the other that was more human. At times I felt I had a good heart, but Japan at that time had a bad heart. In normal times I never would have done such things.
“War is a crime against humanity,”
his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.
There was no trace of them here among the voices, the falling snow, and the old and joyful man, running.
It stands as a testament to the breadth of the realm of possibility, demonstrating that with perseverance, courage, and resourcefulness we can prevail over hardships we imagined were insurmountable. And it demonstrates both the corrosive, life-consuming nature of bitterness and the transcendent liberation and peace that are the gifts of forgiveness. An odyssey of exceptional hardship, pain, trial, and triumph, Louie’s life is like no other, yet it carries lessons that speak to all of us.
