Table of Contents
Prologue In the Blink of an Eye 13
Part 1 Traversing through Tragedy
Chapter 1 April 24, 2008 19
Chapter 2 Er-Unspeakable Trauma 29
Chapter 3 "We Got Him" 43
Chapter 4 Life in Vietnam 49
Chapter 5 ICU-Dear God, Why Us? 59
Chapter 6 Escape on the Open Seas 69
Chapter 7 So Many Losses 75
Chapter 8 Miracles at Sea 85
Chapter 9 She's Responding! 93
Chapter 10 Arriving Alive 103
Chapter 11 Rehab-A Fighting Chance 109
Chapter 12 Onward and Upward 119
Chapter 13 Purging the Bitterness 127
Chapter 14 A Long-Awaited Reunion 137
Chapter 15 Graduation Dreams 143
Part 2 Courage and the Commitment to Love
Chapter 16 The Bloomingdale Library Attack Victim comes Home 149
Chapter 17 A New Normal 159
Chapter 18 Vietnam Revisited 177
Chapter 19 Hold My Hand-I'll walk with you 187
Chapter 20 Time for a Change 193
Chapter 21 Trials, Testimonies, and Questions of Forgiveness 201
Chapter 22 The Love of Community 211
Chapter 23 A Rapist Sentenced 217
Chapter 24 From Victims to Survivors 225
Chapter 25 The Bloomingdale Library Survivor Claims her name 231
Chapter 26 Telling Queena the Painful Truth 239
Chapter 27 More than Sisters 247
Chapter 28 A Rapist Sentenced-again 257
Epilogue A Tree of Victory 271
Acknowledgments 279
Endnotes 285
About the Author 289
