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21 Louie meets Cynthia: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Louis Zamperini, letters to Cynthia Applewhite, April 15 and May 9, 1946; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008; Sylvia Flammer, telephone interviews, October 25, 27, 2004.

22 “I want to see you again”: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

23 Cynthia dating Macs, first date: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

24 Cynthia’s history: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

25 Drinking gin at sixteen: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 8, 1946.

26 Louie throws toilet paper down hotel wall: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

27 Louie proposes: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 9, 1946.

28 Engagement concerns Applewhites: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 13, 1946; Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

29 Cynthia ignorant of POW experiences: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

30 Easy on rice, barley: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 2, 1946.

31 Louie gets drunk on date: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

32 Louie warns Cynthia: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

33 “We have got to set”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 15, 1946.

34 “If you love me enough”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

35 Louie prepares for wedding: Louis Zamperini, letters to Cynthia Applewhite, April 5, 9, 27 and May 8, 1946.

36 Cynthia wants a home: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 23, 1946.

37 Sleeping on floors: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 10, 1946.

38 Concerns about Applewhites: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008; Louis Zamperini, letter to Eric Applewhite, April 1946; Eric Applewhite, letter to Louis Zamperini, April 16, 1946.

39 Louie trains: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 13, 1946; Louis Zamperini, letter to Edwin Wilber, May 1946.

40 Cynthia’s deal with parents: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, April 25, 1946; Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

41 Ric’s fears: Ric Applewhite, telephone interview, March 12, 2008.

42 Louie, Cynthia argue: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

43 Cynthia calls home, Louie drinks: Ibid.

Chapter 35: Coming Undone

1 Garrett upset over rice: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview.

2 Toll of captivity: Norman S. White, MD, letter to the editor, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, November 1983; Bernard M. Cohen and Maurice Z. Cooper, A Follow-up Study of World War II Prisoners of War (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955); D. Robson et al., “Consequences of Captivity: Health Effects of Far East Imprisonment in World War II,” JM: An International Journal of Medicine, vol. 102, no. 2, 2009, pp. 87–96; Robert Ursano, MD, and James Rundell, MD, “The Prisoner of War,” War Psychiatry (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General, 1995), pp. 431–56.

3 Nightmares, sleeping on floors, ducking, hallucinations: Knox, pp. 461, 463, 478–79.

4 McMullen speaking Japanese: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.

5 Weinstein’s urges to scavenge in garbage cans: Weinstein, p. 316.

6 Weinstein housing complex: “Georgia: No Shenanigans,” Time, January 2, 1950.

7 Halloran’s experience: Raymond Halloran, email interview, March 3, 2008.

8 Former POW spitting at Asians: Burke, p. 184.

9 Former POWs try to attack hospital staffer: Knox, p. 465.

10 McMullen after Japan: Milton McMullen, telephone interview, February 16, 2005.

11 “a seething, purifying”: Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 40.

12 “You must look”: Louis Zamperini, letter to Cynthia Applewhite, May 4, 1946.

13 Louie’s torment, resumption of running: Louis Zamperini, telephone