If you're looking for heroes of character, the only place worth looking is inside yourself. That's the only place you can control the findings.
If you're looking for heroes of accomplishment, that's another story altogether.There you can look everywhere.
Besides, I met Woody twice, albeit informally, and both times he was pleasant, cool even. But his chemical imbalance nd other issues are a matter of record, so if you caught him on a bad night, hey...you want to compare notes about dealing with brilliant people with mental instability and/or substance abuse issues, book the room for at least a month, ok?
As for George Braith, I've never met him, but a good buddy of mine used to play with him some in the early 1990s, and he's got nothing but good things to say about him. There's also a formerly very active board member here who also knows him personally and seems to get along with him just fine.
Everybody's got a story about somebody. Everybody.