I did pause it briefly to look at the text, and all I could make out was a bunch of rambling about where he lived. I don't think the viewer was meant to read the details anyway.
Can anyone expand on it, was there more detail in the book perhaps about what he was being asked to say?
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They basically wanted him to denounce his country for declaring him dead when he was not. There is more detail in the book and it is one of the reasons he is kept alive. They wanted to use him to bring down morale and make the US seem they didn't know what they were doing because they couldn't even keep track of who had died and who was alive.
From the book
Well, believe it or not, I guess I’m one of those “Lucky guys”, or maybe, I dunno, maybe I’m really unlucky … Anyway, here’s me, Louis Zamperini, age 27, hometown Los Angeles, California, good ole United States of America speaking. What I mean by lucky is that I’m still alive and healthy Yes, and it’s a funny thing I’ve heard and also saw with my own eyes that I’m washed-up that is I was reported to have died in combat. Yes, one of those who died gallantry fighting for the cause … I think the official report went something like this ‘First Lieutenant Louis S. Zamperini, holder of the national interscholastic mile record, is, listed as dead by the War Department The former University of Southern California miler was reported missing in action in the South Pacific in May 1943’ Well, what do you know? Boy. that’s rich. Here I am just as alive as I could be. but hell I’m supposed to be dead.share
Yeah and this reminds me of another fellow who’s in the same boat as me or at least he was. Anyway he told me that he was officially reported as ‘killed in action’ but in reality was a prisoner-of-war After several months he received a letter from his wife in which she told him that she had married again since she thought he was dead … Of course, she was astonished to hear that he was safe and held in an internment camp.… She however, consolidated him by saying that she was willing to divorce again or marry him once again when he gets home. Boy, I really feel sorry for a fellow like that and the blame lies with the official who allow such unreliable reports After all the least they can do is to let the folks back home know just where their boy are.Anyway that's not my worry but I hope the folks back home are properly notified of the fact that I am alive and intend to stay alive It’s certainly a sad world when a fellow can’t even be allowed to live, I mean when a fellow is killed off by a so-called ‘official report. How about that?
Many thanks!
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