The other night I took my 11-year-old son to see “Sully,” Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about Chesley Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who safely landed his stricken aircraft on the Hudson River on a frigid day in January 2009. After the movie, over burgers, we talked about the difference between heroism and fame. “Famous people,” my son ventured, “depend on what other people think of them to be who they are. Sully just...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 26, 2016 23:26 UTC