Napoleon demanded a method of communication that would not require light or sound; that is how he inspired the basis for braille
Army dentist, killed 98 Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Saipan before he was killed – after being shot 76 times
Freed slave wrote sarcastic letter to his former master after he asked him to come back to his plantation
In WWI, a British prisoner of war was released from German prison camp to see his dying mother on the promise that he would return, and he did
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry survived a plane crash in 1947 and he went back to evacuate passengers from the burning plane