Contents
Foreword, James B. Lane
Introduction, John Bodnar
Arredondo/Batalla Family Tree
Chapter 1 - The Revolution
Chapter 2 - The Bargain
Chapter 3 - From Texas Boxcars to Illinois Rails
Chapter 4 - Tragedy Has Two Faces
Chapter 5 - Secrets of the Past
Chapter 6 - Safe Harbor
Chapter 7 - “Mill Rats”
Chapter 8 - Change is Constant
Chapter 9 - Depression and Repatriation
Chapter 10 - “Take Me to the Fair”
Chapter 11 - Betrayal
Chapter 12 - “Don’t Look Back”—The Homecoming
Chapter 13 - On Watling Street
Chapter 14 - Graduation, Illness, Accidents, and a Vision
Chapter 15 - The War
Chapter 16 - Celebrations and Losses
Chapter 17 - Church and School
Chapter 18 - Diet and Discipline
Chapter 19 - The Haunting
Chapter 20 - Maria’s “Confession”
Chapter 21 - Jesse Joins the Army, then the Union
Chapter 22 - “Happy Days” in the Harbor
Chapter 23 - Love Calls—“California Here We Come”
Chapter 24 - Jesse Takes a Wife—and More
Chapter 25 - Maria Battles the “Commies”
Chapter 26 - No Good Solutions
Chapter 27 - Love and Uncle Sam
Chapter 28 - Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Chapter 29 - The Value of Education
Chapter 30 - In the Blink of an Eye
Chapter 31 - The Vision Revealed
Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgments