Perfect example

Everyone liked the story about Flight 1549 this week, though I bet everyone involved wished it had never happened. I think this is always the weird paradox of 'The Hero' - that they truly occur when something goes wrong, and after the fact they usually insist it was nothing, and anyone in the same situation would have attempted the same thing.

The other point about acts of heroism is that it can come to define a person in a manner they themselves didn't want. I hope when those two pilots retire, they look back on this as the scariest day of their life, and not the defining moment. I certainly hope that Pilot Sully isn't drawn into some insane "Joe the Plumber"-style media showboat, though given that Joe wasn't actually a plumber, I can see how that all worked out.

Maybe I'l ruminate on this a bit more later.