There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.