Wesley Autrey was on David Letterman last night. I was very impressed with him, and so was Letterman. Don't think I've ever seen Letterman so ga ga. I liked a comment he made: Do you think there are enough people like that in the world to make the difference?

There was more to the story than reported.

His two little girls are 4 and 6 years old. He was on his way to their mother's house to drop them off on his way to work.

Autrey said that when he got to the subway station, the young man (20 years old) was having a seizure. Autrey and two women got him away from the edge of the platform and stayed with him until he stabilized. The young man then got up and went off, stumbling and lurching but coherent.

A few minutes later Autrey saw the young man had fallen into the track pit. He was flailing and twisting. A train was coming and Autrey said he argued with himself on the need to do something to help. He said his own voice told him, Hey, Wesley, you can do this. He eyeballed the trench between the tracks and thought that even though the other man was big, he himself was skinny and they might fit. So he dropped over the edge and hauled the young man between the tracks. He lay on top of him and held onto him hard. He said he kept telling the kid, Don't push me away. Let me hold on, and we'll make it.

The only casualty, he said, was that his cap got dirty from the train's undercarriage.

He was used to tight places, he said. He is in construction.
He gave the little girls to the two elderly women and told them to watch them. One of the women told him later that his littlest one tried to follow her daddy over the edge.