The State Of The Union Is Strong

That was fast! Man of the year Wesley Autrey makes it into President Bush’s State of the Union address:

One thing everyone at the State of the Union address could agree on applauding was President Bush’s introduction of Wesley Autrey, the New Yorker who saved the life of a stranger in a Harlem subway station.

Autrey was commended in Bush’s speech yesterday for jumping onto the tracks when he saw the man fall into the path of a train, pulling him out of harm’s way and holding him until the train passed above their heads.

Bush said: There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey, who attended the speech with his daughters.

And speaking of which:

The chamber erupted most unanimously and loudly for Wesley Autrey, the man who leapt into the tracks of a New York subway to save a fellow passenger. (The only ones not clapping, it appeared, were Mr. Autrey’s two young daughters, who napped beside him in their bubblegum-colored dresses.)