In Louie’s childhood years, he was a criminal that was constantly stealing items and getting into many fights. Almost no one outside of his family liked him one bit, and he was constantly beat up at school. But once he joined the track team and became popular and more mature, he made friends had a happy life in high school. He thought the bad times were behind him, but he was wrong. After his plane crashed and he was captured by the Japanese, he was sent off to many different Japanese POW camps. All of the camps had one thing in common; they starved and beat the prisoners to death. Many POWs died and all the survivors were scared for life. Louie for one, managed to survive but was scared for life. But there was a turning point in his life, when he meet a priest that told him to forgive the people that have messed up his life. Louie went to Japan and forgave all the POW guards that had beat him, even the Bird, the worst of all the guards. In the 1930’s, the U.S. government came and killed most of Chester’s grandparent’s herd of sheep because they were falsely accused of being the reason for the dust bowl. But instead of holding a grudge for his whole life, he forgave the U.S. and still helped them out majorly in the war. And because he helped out the U.S., they cleared the Navajo’s name and made a big difference in how people thought of Native Americans. “I was very proud to have served my country” was a quote from him. It’s amazing he can say that even though the country he was proud to serve mistreated him badly. One thing that both of them had in common was they both forgave the people that had been mean to them in their lives. They didn’t hold grudges, and because of that they both made big differences in their country.