War-hero

But Francis was not interested in his friend's experiences. For Francis had had a job in the War Office—whereas Angus was a war-hero with shattered nerves.

Remember that good looking guy I showed you in the magazine that was a war-hero and now he's an actor?

The war-hero knew the sound.

When the maverick patrician and war-hero Marcus Manlius Capitolinus championed the popular cause, paying off the private debts of many plebeians from his own resources and promising a general redress of grievances, he was met by a conservative counter-attack led by another war-hero, Marcus Furius Camillus, the man now acclaimed as 'the second founder of Rome' for his role in the city's recovery after the Gallic invasion.