Posted on 01/03/2007 7:09:24 AM PST by rface
I'm glad that's not my last name...
Saw the guy on TV. He is indeed a hero. I hope someone comes up with a scholarship or something for his little kids.
yeah!~!!!
Greater love hath no man...risking one's own life to save a stranger shows great depth of character!
I love this story. I could just read it over and over. What a courageous man.
Amazing.
Awesome.
A man of character, with an honest job, and two young girls, saves a man in distress by putting himself in great danger with split-second presence of mind and quick action.
Hero personified.
That guy had to have nerves of steel. God bless him.
Adds a little luster to the Human Image...... a True Hero!
He and Kerry were in Vietnam. Compare and contrast.
Three cheers!!!!!!
If this guy is really 50 years old, he's too young to have been in Vietnam. He's a hero anyway. He didn't have to do what he did. But he did it anyway.
I heard this on the radio this morning and thought I heard wrong when they said: "beneath the oncoming train". Unreal, a true hero indeed! God bless them both.
Any subway rider knows that at some stations there are grooves between the rails that are a foot deep or more - and at some stations there is no perceptible groove - just the depth of the rail itself.
The groove at this station just happened to be just deep enough to crouch in. He said on the news that he thought he could get this guy back onto the platform in time but that he was wrong.
Had the groove between the rails not happened to be rather deep, his daughters would have watched their father die and extremely gruesome death.
The fact that he is alive is sheer luck - he reacted with a big heart and an empty brain and the Lord thankfully smiled on him.
That's a good idea.
50-year-old Wesley Autrey..................Autrey, a Vietnam War veteran,
lets see.....2007 - 50 = 1957 + 18 = 1975
I hope the paper has the wrong info on his age - otherwise there is very little chance that he is actually a Vietnam War veteran.
He will be blessed by G-d.
I love this story. I could just read it over and over. What a courageous man.
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