Sometimes he wonders if he should have got down on the floor like everybody else.

A few days later, sitting in front of a crowd of reporters ands television cameras, Keith finally gets the chance to say the line: "The guy with the gun isn't always the craziest guy in the room." And later, during another telephone interview he refined the quote, saying: "The guy waving the gun isn't always the craziest person in the room." He toyed with the idea of using, "Sometimes the guy waving the gun isn't the craziest one in the room," but he didn't like it. His favorite version was, "The craziest guy in the room isn't always the guy with the gun." He came up with this one right about the time the twenty-four hour news cycle lost interest, and he never got to use it.

He was glad the bank's security camera caught his brief moment of glory. He spent the next week between interviews watching it on the Internet news channels and on television. The surprisingly good surveillance video, complete with sound, showed the masked gunman burst into the bank lobby, waving his gun, demanding everyone hit the floor. Keith starts to comply, but when the masked man turns his attention to the bank tellers, Keith springs into action. He is like a blur across the screen, and he tackles the gunman. A few moments later, other bank patrons pile on, and the situation is under control. The police arrive minutes later. Keith had taken the guy down with a textbook tackle.

He was a hero.

But after a couple of days the newspapers and television stations stopped calling, and so he sat and waited. The video was on YouTube, but the hit count barely moved. The comments became cruel.

He wondered, from his wheelchair, if it was worth it. The crook had time to get one shot off before the other bank patrons had piled on, a single shot directly into Keith's spine.