Holz at Cosmic Variance comments
I only met Wheeler once that I recall.
Interesting man.
Many years ago, I was in Japan and needed some assistance from the US embassy.
The INS officer looked at my papers, looked up and said: "you're a physicist? Do you know John Wheeler?"
Fortunately, I had then met him, that one time...
We had an interesting chat about black holes, bits and careers in relativistic astrophysics, and he then cleared my paperwork and gave me some lasting advice.
Small world.
Over at Uncertain Principles I describe the poem (comment #63) that I wrote and posted at the Cosmic Variance memorial thread for Wheeler. I also mention Caltech and Kip Thorne in that blog thread on Chad Orzel's Scienceblog.