For All Mankind (TV Series)

The Grey (2021)

Cynthy Wu: Kelly Baldwin

Quotes 

• Kelly Baldwin : [voiceover]  On April 3rd, 1972, a C-5A Galaxy transport plane with 243 infants, children, volunteers and crew took off from Saigon as part of Operation Babylift. One minute, 23 seconds later, the plane crashed into a field. Forty-seven children were rescued. I was one of them. There are these moments that shape your life, moments you have no control over. If the pilot had banked left instead of right, if the south had won the war in Vietnam, if the Russians hadn't beat us to the moon... I always thought things happen for a reason. Good and bad, there's a design, a plan. But lately I've started to wonder if maybe we just say that to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we're just drifting from moment to moment trying to do what we think is right. To give some meaning to our lives. So who am I? I'm Hanh Nguyen, born in Saigon, daughter of Le and Bing Nguyen. And I'm Kelly Ann Baldwin, raised in Houston, daughter of Karen and Ed Baldwin. A child of the space program. Is this the journey I was meant to be on? Applying to the Naval Academy, following in my father's footsteps? I don't know. All I know is the more we look back, wondering what might have been, the less we're living for today. And the future... John Lennon probably put it best: "Everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay, it's not the end.