[User23]

Hero has become a joke word used to describe anyone that goes to their job in the morning, but General Yeager was a bona fide hero whose achievements would be viewed by the vast majority of humanity past and present as bordering on godlike. He's what the ancient Greeks meant when they talked about heroes.

[SEJeff]

Indeed he is. He was shot down over German occupied territory, managed to get to safety, only to come back and shoot down more German planes.

He was unreal.