would return to japan, once to forgive his old prison guards and in 1998 to carry the torch of the nagano winter games. he told of the harrowing details in a best-seller. in this, his tenth decade of life, louie tends his garden but does not nourish himself as a hero. >> i have people writing me letters, you're an inspiration. i go to the va hospital and see guys in a wheelchair, leg off, arm off. the real heroes are people who lose their limbs or stuff like that. >> for fox news, i'm james rosen. >> fox news has reaction tonight from the woman who wrote louie's biography. laura helen brand says, quote, in a life of almost unimaginable drama, he experienced supreme triumphs but brutal hardship, and the cruelty of his fellow man. he was an airman, a plane crash victim, a castaway, he was attacked by sharks and strafed by his enemy. he was a p.o.w., and a slave. he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. but louie greetd every challenge of his long journey with determination and ingenuity, with a ferocious will to survive and prevail, and with hope that you know master. he would not