Hometown Hero - Ashley Aldridge

Ashley Aldridge is a young 19 year old mom who was cleaning up lunch after feeding her children and heard someone yelling for help.  She saw a man who's wheelchair was stuck in the railroad tracks.  She ran next door and asked her neighbor to watch her kids when she heard the clanging of the gate warning of an approaching train.  Running over she tried to lift the Hoverround out of the tracks and looking to the side she saw the train approching.  She rushed to the front and with her 130 pound frame she lifted the 200 pound man, his body clearing the wheelchair just as the 80 mph Amtrak demolished the chair.  When interviewed Ashley has insisted that she is just happy he's alive and that she doesn't have to live with wondering "what if", what she neglects to say is that her house was broken into just weeks before with her bill money and savings being taken, she neglects to say that she and her young husband struggle as he works a roofing job with varied hours.  This site is to give people a chance to give back to someone whose story and courage has so blessed a community and even a nation.