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Billy Graham, Louis Zamperini and the two nights in 1949 that changed their lives

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(RNS) Two October evenings in 1949 brought together an alcoholic war hero and a fiery young evangelist. From then on, neither would be the same.

The preaching in that rented circus tent in Los Angeles changed Louis Zamperini, then 32—who put away the bottle forever and devoted the rest of his life to Christian testimony and good works.