A common complaint about this blog is that we are too negative and we criticize too much. It's a fair complaint.

So in the interest of balancing out the blog, here is a wonderful story about a New York construction worker named Wesley Autrey who while riding the Subway with his two daughters saved the life of another man who had fallen into the tracks of the subway system.

Here is how the Times describes the scene:

Nearby, a man collapsed, his body convulsing. Mr. Autrey and two women rushed to help, he said. The man, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, managed to get up, but then stumbled to the platform edge and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.

The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,” Mr. Autrey said.

So he made one, and leapt.

Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The train’s brakes screeched, but it could not stop in time.

Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard onlookers’ screams. “We’re O.K. down here,” he yelled, “but I’ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father’s O.K.” He heard cries of wonder, and applause.

This reminds me of my favorite Bible Verse:

Greater love hath no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

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