Story can be fiction or non-fiction, and that's an irrelevant point anyway, Apollo 13 was real - Edit 1
Before modification by Isaac at 08/01/2013 05:01:43 AM
Well the definition of awesome includes scary and inspirational. That was pretty scary and pretty inspirational. You're choosing to put the 'cool' on the attack, not the events opposing it, and I think it was pretty clear he found her actions impressive and inspirational and 'great'. He obviously considers this woman's actions heroic.
The firefighters who responded to the attacks on the WTC were heroes. But it's not a great story; it's a tragedy.
Oedipus Rex is a great story and a tragedy. Saving Private Ryan was a great story and its fictional status basically irrelevant, the story is effectively 'real enough'. Titanic is a great story, so are a lot of war stories. 'Story' is clearly defined as fiction or non-fiction, and 'great' has plenty of definitions that certainly include 'remarkable'. If I had written the thread, I'd probably have used a different word from great myself, but I could easily see myself saying a 'great story of courage', but personally I have my doubts about whether any word choice would have mattered to you from him. I think you just wanted to direct something nasty his direction and seized on any perceived opportunity.