Posted on 01/02/2007 3:57:13 PM PST by luv2ski
Wesley Autrey is my hero. Brave and smart.
Hero Bump!!!
This is the kind of thing that deserves a book or movie of the week. A ordinary citizen doing the extraordinary when the time came.
Cameron Hollowpeter is the kid's name. He ought to change it.
Why would he take such a chance with this two daughters looking right at him?\
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My experience of construction workers is that they live with potentially dangerous situations regularly in their work. They are used to thinking and acting extremely quickly and decisively. I bet he had already considered that other subway riders would watch over his girls.
True heros never consider themselves to be heros. Ironic, isn't it?
BTW, this man most definitely is a HERO.
This gentleman is a hero. So did the trains actually pass over them?
Quick indeed. It sounds like one second he was just standing by the tracks, and by the next second he had conceived and was implementing a very risky but basically sound plan to save the 18 year old.
Where did he learn to think and move that quickly and decisively? Sports? The military?
Amen to that. Extraordinary bravery. Above and beyond. Almost Medal of Honor level bravery, imo. It's what always has defined a "hero" to me: Someone who knows the risk, knows it could go wrong, and yet does it anyway. I would've frozen in my tracks.
Onlooker Patricia Brown said Autrey, a Vietnam War veteran, "needs to be recognized as a hero."
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"He was stuck and I was like, 'Wow. Do I struggle here?' If I got him up, then I would have to go for the ground. And I didn't have that much time. So I just went for the gutter thing," said Autrey.
His first concern was for other guy.
The train did an emergency stop over them.
God bless Mr. Autrey!
Another vote for Hero. Men like this one should be revered. I hope I don't need one, but if I do, I hope there's a guy like Autrey around. Bless him.
And I think his daughters will always consider him a hero. Kids with a dad like that usually turn out well.
What would his daughters have thought of their dad if he knew he could save someone but let him die right in front of their eyes?
So true! As it is, for the rest of their lives they will remember the day he saved another man's life at the risk of his own. How very proud they must be of him!
That's real balls.
Thanks for reminding us we still have heroes.
What a great way to start 2007.
Wow, what a story of heroism! They should make that center channel three or four feet in depth for good measure. Public Service Announcements (PSA) could advise riders to roll to the safety of the center channel should they accidentally fall to the tracks with a train approaching. Heck, I've been to NYC many, many times and had no idea that a normal-sized person could lay in that channel and not get hit by a passing subway train.
~ Blue Jays ~
He's a hero all right. And all the more heroic because he had two young daughters with him. A lot of people would say, let someone else do it, I have to watch out for these kids.
You don't really think about something like this, you just do it, or don't do it. What leads someone to do it is a lifetime living the right way, being unselfish, caring for other people. So when that split second opens up, they are ready to act.
As Aristotle said, virtue is a habit. This must be someone who is basically virtuous, evidently a family man among other things. So he was in the habit of doing the right thing if something unexpected happened.
He should definitely be honored. I know that Giuliani would have done so. I hope Bloomberg will.
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