A Great Navy Story

This is a story to start your weekend off right:

ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Standing in the hangar bay of this mammoth aircraft carrier, Seaman Joviena Kay looks across the waves toward the devastated coast of Sumatra, remembering a time 13 years ago when she huddled on the same deck with evacuees from another great Asian disaster.
Joviena was 6 years old then, a refugee from a volcano. The Filipino-American eventually joined the U.S. Navy, and she is serving on the ship that rescued her as its sailors help the survivors of an earthquake and tsunami.
"It's horrible, what happened to those people out there," she says of the tens and tens of thousands of Indonesians swept to their deaths by huge waves.
It was horror of a different kind that descended on Joviena and her mother in 1991. A gigantic eruption of Mount Pinatubo rained crushing volcanic ash on their home in the Philippines. More than 700 people died.

People who live in America, forget that America is not only seen as bad, but in the majority of the world as good. I imagine that there's a large group of people who think differently of the US military in places like Aceh and Colombo. Alas, they still haven't changed their minds in more alien places like San Francisco or The upper west side of Manhattan.