"not something you go bragging about"

On Morning Edition today NPR reported on the USS Kirk, which led up to 30,000 Vietnamese refugees to safety in 1975.

"I obviously don't remember anything just because I was still a baby in diapers, but what my mom tells me, my parents tell me, is that they dropped me off," she says.

That's not the same as drop off the baby at day care or drop off the baby at Grandma's house. What Nguyen-Driver means is that her mother literally dropped her — from a moving helicopter. She's heard her parents tell the story.

"And she just was like, '1-2-3, hallelujah: Drop her,' " Nguyen-Driver says. "And just going for Hail Mary and not really quite being sure as to if the folks below were going to catch me or not."

The full text of the story is at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129554870, but listen to the audio if you possibly can.