Subway Track Autrey

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Gerard Way once said “Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.” You can save someone's life or even help someone get through something, and that’s a hero. Therefore, you don’t have to accomplish something big, it can be the smallest thing and that will make you a hero. A true hero is courageous/brave and is selflessness.
In the article “Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Track” a guy named Wesley Autrey saved a man's life. Autery is selfless because he put others before him. Autrey was waiting for a subway so he could drop off his 2 daughters at home. At the subway station, a college student had a seizure and fell onto the subway tracks. The headlights of No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,” Autrey

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