Stories that won't go away :
Merrell, Betty J., jt. compiler
Stories that won't go away : women in Vietnam, 1959-1975 / compiled by Betty J. Merrell and Priscilla Tunnell. - Birmingham, AL : New Hope, c1995. - 205 p. ; 22 cm.
Our entries
Are you taking your children? -- Birthday -- Hurry up and get in this house -- Managing the tones -- Making memories -- Mistakes -- Send-off -- Slide show -- Sunrise, sunset -- The call: the response -- The first Christmas -- The test -- Trials of a rookie -- Uncle Dan Whitt -- Welcome to Vietnam --
Our Everydays
All for a bag of cookies -- A loo, a cot, and a what? -- A move -- Angle on assignment -- Boomerang joy -- Bus fare -- Death and resurrection -- House hunt -- Interior decorating -- Learning at the feet of my sisters -- Neighboring -- New ways for new days -- Recreation or re-creation? -- Schoolteachers -- Stranger on the beach -- Street sounds -- Surprise at 45 -- The divine presence -- The fire -- The letter box -- The missionary is a mom -- The refrigerated van -- The real throne room -- He wired it together --
Our labors
A little child shall lead them -- And death begets life -- Christian hope -- For lack of a wall -- Friday fellowships -- Harvest at last -- Praying on Automatic -- Recovering -- Singing the good news -- The blessing -- the chain reaction -- The miracle of healing -- The miracle of partnering -- When are you going to do the rest of the story? -- 998 tongues to go --
Our daughters
A nine-year-old's room with a view -- Can Tho, Vietnam -- Emerging memories -- Eyes not quite round -- Identity crisis -- I have heard the dogs of war -- Journal entry -- Ka-cushes and 222s -- Recollections -- School days -- Sister two -- Street without joy -- The blue beast -- The freight -- The Sandy alleway -- They're not shooting at us -- Together --
The war
A holiday explodes -- A mom's prayer -- Curfew's toll -- In harm's way --Jogging in a minefield -- Letter to grandmas: unsent -- Michael's birth -- One woman's seasons -- Practicing Luke, Chapter three -- The man in black -- The protest -- The trouble with silence -- Trust -- Twist with a bias --
Our exits
A pillar of cloud -- Departure remembered -- Furlough -- Hurt -- If you had not come -- Innocence -- Jumping the hurdles, winning the race -- Last daze -- Our new names -- Post-Vietnam -- Reflections on a camp -- The gospel according to Mark -- The wall piece with a message --
Reentry?
Reunion -- Unfinished business --
1563091127
Acc#29596
WOMEN MISSIONARIES--VIETNAM
BAPTISTS--MISSIONS--VIETNAM
VIETNAM--DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
BV 3310 / T834 1995
Stories that won't go away : women in Vietnam, 1959-1975 / compiled by Betty J. Merrell and Priscilla Tunnell. - Birmingham, AL : New Hope, c1995. - 205 p. ; 22 cm.
Our entries
Are you taking your children? -- Birthday -- Hurry up and get in this house -- Managing the tones -- Making memories -- Mistakes -- Send-off -- Slide show -- Sunrise, sunset -- The call: the response -- The first Christmas -- The test -- Trials of a rookie -- Uncle Dan Whitt -- Welcome to Vietnam --
Our Everydays
All for a bag of cookies -- A loo, a cot, and a what? -- A move -- Angle on assignment -- Boomerang joy -- Bus fare -- Death and resurrection -- House hunt -- Interior decorating -- Learning at the feet of my sisters -- Neighboring -- New ways for new days -- Recreation or re-creation? -- Schoolteachers -- Stranger on the beach -- Street sounds -- Surprise at 45 -- The divine presence -- The fire -- The letter box -- The missionary is a mom -- The refrigerated van -- The real throne room -- He wired it together --
Our labors
A little child shall lead them -- And death begets life -- Christian hope -- For lack of a wall -- Friday fellowships -- Harvest at last -- Praying on Automatic -- Recovering -- Singing the good news -- The blessing -- the chain reaction -- The miracle of healing -- The miracle of partnering -- When are you going to do the rest of the story? -- 998 tongues to go --
Our daughters
A nine-year-old's room with a view -- Can Tho, Vietnam -- Emerging memories -- Eyes not quite round -- Identity crisis -- I have heard the dogs of war -- Journal entry -- Ka-cushes and 222s -- Recollections -- School days -- Sister two -- Street without joy -- The blue beast -- The freight -- The Sandy alleway -- They're not shooting at us -- Together --
The war
A holiday explodes -- A mom's prayer -- Curfew's toll -- In harm's way --Jogging in a minefield -- Letter to grandmas: unsent -- Michael's birth -- One woman's seasons -- Practicing Luke, Chapter three -- The man in black -- The protest -- The trouble with silence -- Trust -- Twist with a bias --
Our exits
A pillar of cloud -- Departure remembered -- Furlough -- Hurt -- If you had not come -- Innocence -- Jumping the hurdles, winning the race -- Last daze -- Our new names -- Post-Vietnam -- Reflections on a camp -- The gospel according to Mark -- The wall piece with a message --
Reentry?
Reunion -- Unfinished business --
1563091127
Acc#29596
WOMEN MISSIONARIES--VIETNAM
BAPTISTS--MISSIONS--VIETNAM
VIETNAM--DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
BV 3310 / T834 1995