Survivor of Pinatubo comes full-circle

This is just plain cool:

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.

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In her few spare moments, the soft-spoken sailor counters homesickness by keeping in touch with her mother via e-mail.

"She's proud of us, trying to help out here," Joviena says. "She just tells me to be careful."

Many others are proud of her, too.

[Pilfered from Captain's Quarters.]