41.   Alan Shepard and John Glenn were national heroes.

42.   Bud becomes a national hero when he leads a rescue operation to find Honey, whom he left stranded across the border after a previous foray.

43.   Both societies make national heroes of their dead and wounded and draw moral strength from a sense of outraged victimhood.

44.   But he left as a national hero after an in-your-face verbal slugfest with congressional questioners.

45.   But he returned in triumph and is enshrined as a national hero and prophet of democracy, whose likeness adorns French currency.

46.   But professional sports also creates genuinely national heroes like Tiger Woods.

47.   But the Kiwis regrouped behind intense, soft-spoken Peter Blake, who was already a national hero for his exploits as an around-the-world sailing champion.

48.   Campas is still a mystery in Mexico to many, which may make the transition to national hero a bit difficult.

49.   Can they risk alienating a star who will become a national hero?

50.   Canada speedskaters packed Wheaties boxes depicting their national heroes, hoping to get them autographed.