A Few Good Women: Memoirs of a World War II Marine

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A Few Good Women by Inga Fredrikson Ferris: The author, as “Freddy”’ takes you with her as she faces all the indignities one can expect in Marine Corps boot camp, and some that we unexpected. On their last day, the drill instructor makes a big mistake, creating total chaos. Yet his parting words to them are “Yew women are stupid”.

Freddy is sent on to the Naval Air Tactical Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma where for five months she studies to become an Aviation Machinist Mate, learning about all the things that can go wrong with a plane, and how to fix it. As he also learns that her bunkmate, Kilgallen, has recently spent ten years in a convent.

She fells uncomfortable around such piety until she discovers that while “Kil” retains great respect for her church, she has broken several Marine Corps regulations in order to get a transfer here from Washington, DC. (“There’s four hundred women there for every man, and all the men are marries.”)

That degree was not earned in mathematics or mechanical aptitude. Kil soon realizes it would be of little help to her here. She declares, “I’m a poet, a dreamer and a lover, and they’ll never make a mechanic out of me.” Clutching her rosary, she climbs up on her bunk and takes the problem to a Higher Power.

Theirs was the only entire class to transfer together to El Toro.

Sondra Metzger, editor of the Women Marines Association “Nouncements,” wrote of A Few Good Women, “Once I picked up this book, I had a hard time putting it down… It was a very interesting and easy read… Inga has a style of her own…gets to the point without being to descriptive and wordy. I really enjoyed her story telling, and I think you would too. Thank you, Inga, for sharing your experiences.”

Virginia Allred, past president of the National Women Marines Association, writes "For me, this book was a step back in time, an honest, vivid account of what life was like for Women Marines who served in World War II. The fast-paced dialog with clear verbal expressions makes for a quick and enjoyable read."

But this is not only a women’s book. Men, too, are curious to know what really goes on inside the women’s squad rooms. When my buddy, Pat Graves Smith, received her copy of A Few Good Women, Bob, her husband, would not let her have it until he finished reading it.

And Ted Fuller, columnist, writes that it’s “A candid, often graphic personal account that provides a long- overdue salute to the valiant, innovative women who served their country well.”

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The words we choose with which to say "I do" reflect a couple's individual love and expresses their innermost hopes for what their marriage and commitment will be for their lifetime. Today's modern bride and groom want to incorporate tradition, eloquence, and faithful promises into their vows, and this beautiful book offers ideas and inspirations for incorporating meaningful words and thoughts of love into their special day.

In this book couples will discover how others from around the world and across time have chosen to say "I do" as well as the derivatives and customs behind these words.

More than simply a guide to writing wedding vows, this beautifully packaged collection includes:

Dozens of diverse vows, poems, and readings from a range of cultural and religious traditions
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The words we choose with which to say "I do" reflect a couples individual love and expresses their innermost hopes for what their marriage and commitment will be for their lifetime. Today's modern bride and groom want to incorporate tradition, eloquence, and faithful promises into their vows, and this beautiful book offers ideas and inspirations for incorporating meaningful words and thoughts of love into their special day.

In this book couples will discover how others from around the world and across time have chosen to say "I do" as well as the derivatives and customs behind these words.

More than simply a guide to writing wedding vows, this beautifully packaged collection includes:

Dozens of diverse vows, poems, and readings from a range of cultural and religious traditions
Includes customs from Catholicism, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Baha'i, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, European, and other religions and cultures

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The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Barker Texas History Center Series)

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A Rare Personal Account of Early Texas

The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Barker Texas History Center Series)
Noah Smithwick
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0292720459

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"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise."

Noah Smithwick was an old man, blind and near his ninetieth year, when his daughter recorded these words. He had stayed on in "paradise"—Texas—from 1827 to 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. The Evolution of a State is his story of these "old Texas days."

A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepción, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie.

Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor. His keen memory for detail—what the people wore, what they ate, how they worked and played— vividly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the frontier.

First published in part by the Dallas Morning News, Smithwick's recollections gained such popularity that they were published in book form, as The Evolution of a State, in 1900. This new edition of a Texas classic makes widely available for the first time in many years this "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas."

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Good Reading.......2007-05-17

We found this book to be full of interesting stories about early Texas. It was helpful in finding information about our ancestors and our early Texas family.

An Excellent Memoir.......2006-11-11

I learned of this book through the H-Texas History forum online and I was not disappointed. Occasional "old time" expressions make the account interesting and remind the reader that the writer is speaking from another time. The story as told from a first-person point of view was enhanced by my prior knowledge of events in Texas history. Reading about those events in the words of a person who was there was impressive. I highly recommend this book. I have purchased copies as gifts.

First hand account.......2004-04-05

Read about what happened from someone who was really there for the early days of Texas.

A good read, but use with caution.......2004-04-02

Dictated to one of his daughters when he was well past eighty, Noah Smithwick witnessed the panorama of Texas History. From the early days of Austin's Colony to the the aftermath of the Civil War, the text is lively with a dry sense of humor. But the reader is urged to use this book with caution. Some facts don't match up with other documents that were written at the time, instead of years later. (Noah had been banished from Texas in a round-about way. He had made a rifle and loaned it to another settler, who promptly used it to commit a murder.) Smithwick seemed to posess a fair education, which on the Texas frontier was something of an accomplishment. Blacksmith, carpenter, tobacco smuggler, gunsmith, racontour par excellance and even somewhat of a romantic, Smithwick's book is well worth reading.

A Rare Personal Account of Early Texas.......2003-05-01

Noah Smithwick was an old man, blind and near his ninetieth year, when his daughter recorded these words. After his death in 1899, she polished the manuscript and had it published in 1900. He had stayed on in "paradise" Texas from 1827 to 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. This book is his story of these "old Texas days." If his memory for facts sometimes fails him, his stories never do.

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The Days of Noah
G. H. Pember
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Noah's Flood, Joshua's Long Day, & Lucifer's Fall: What Really Happened?

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Typical compromising evangelical local flood compromise

Noah's Flood, Joshua's Long Day, & Lucifer's Fall: What Really Happened?
Ralph Woodrow
Manufacturer: Ralph Woodrow
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Binding: Paperback

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Read Genesis with regard to its literary form.......2007-10-13

Mr. Woodrow's book is an uncomplicated approach to addressing several instances where the Scriptures have been erroneously interpreted or applied.

In "Joshua's Long Day", he illustrates an interesting understanding of the passage Joshua 10:12-14 and the language it contains (that is, the sun did not stop in its course across the sky - which is of course to say that the earth did not cease revolving on its axis). As well he addresses the legend concerning "space scientists" and the discovery of a "missing day".

In "Was Satan Once an Angel in Heaven?" he points out several passages in the Bible that have been erroneously applied to Satan.

In "Noah's Flood", what is certainly the main topic of the book, occupying half of it, Mr. Woodrow tackles the traditional view of Noah's Flood as a global deluge and argues that it was instead regional in impact. As well, he demonstrates several of the instances where the "global" tradition's point of view creates conflict and contradiction in Scripture. Thus it is entirely both unfair and untrue to call him a Bible scoffer; especially when he is arguing for the integrity of the text.

The knowledgeable Christian understands that the traditional view of a global flood has become fraught with numerous distortions of scripture. For instance, some attribute all or part of Psalm 104 as referring to issues regarding the Flood. But Psalm 104 is written in regard to the majesty of God and the work of Creation, and not at all the Flood.

Some assert the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat and that it did not rain on earth until the Flood. But a precise reading of Genesis 8:4 shows that the ark landed on the "mountains" of Ararat. "Ararat" is also translated Armenia, and it is a country and not a mountain. Thus the text represents the ark coming to rest in the hill country foothills of Ararat, its elevation unspecified. As for a lack of rain before the flood, Genesis 2:5 suffers contortion to support that assertion, but on reading the verse in context it is stating the condition of the earth BEFORE God began bringing order and life to the world.

Yet if one is to challenge the "global" view meaningfully, one must bring into consideration the very structure, method and type of the language of Genesis, and Mr. Woodrow only very lightly touches upon it, and principally leaves it outside the book's scope. If one intends to contest such an ingrained teaching as a global flood effectively, it is essential to demonstrate the accurate intention of the text's written word, the focus of the writer, and the purpose of the Author. Not to mention the true application of prophetic texts which refer to it. This topic, then, cannot be addressed in such a small volume conclusively.

There are a few errors in Mr. Woodrow's book that bear pointing out. One error in logic concerns the ark being carried up to the freezing height of the top of Mt. Ararat. He suggests that "it would not have been floating in water, it would have been frozen in ice (page 73)" But if the water had risen to that height, the atmosphere would rise with it, and even if the atmosphere were spread over a larger surface area it need not result in the ark being ice bound. This conceals the point which follows that after the waters receded, the atmosphere would return to near normal and the extreme cold would have been ruinous to the survivors in the ark; that is if it landed near the top of Mt. Ararat, which the Bible does not say it did.

Another logic error is relying on George Lamsa's view of Scripture. In the subtopic "Water in the Desert", Mr. Woodrow notes that Lamsa thought that Moses in Numbers 20:7-11 used his rod to search in the sand for a rock covering a well. By probing in the sand he might "strike the rock" (pg. 111). But the text indicates this cannot be the case. First Moses is instructed by God to SPEAK to the rock in question when the people were gathered BEFORE THE ROCK. Certainly the rock would be visible. The next subtopic "The Lost Axehead" makes another appeal to Lamsa.

In the subtopics: "Crossing Jordan", I side with the view of the waters rising in a heap on themselves; "Ravens or Arabians" with ravens; and "Was Satan Once an Angel in Heaven?" that Satan was an angel that fell (1John 3:8) - but I agree that several passages of the Bible have been erroneously applied to Satan.

If you choose to buy Mr. Woodrow's book, then test it impartially by the light of Scripture. This is the very thing that many would not want you to do.

It is the duty of every Christian to test the teachings they encounter by Scripture; to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (1Thess 5:21). We should be like the Bereans (Acts 17:10-11), and receive nothing that cannot be sustained by Scripture. Reading Genesis prayerfully with a discerning heart, while paying careful attention to its literary form, the magnificence and majesty of this great literary work inspired of God unfolds before our eyes with wonder!

Typical compromising evangelical local flood compromise.......2000-03-31

Authors like Woodrow who promote local flood and long age compromises can be summarised as follows:

"'Science' has shown that the earth is billions of years old, therefore the plain meaning of Scripture must be re-interpreted to fit these 'facts'. If we [with our finite understanding] can't explain a clear biblical teaching, it follows that no explanation is possible, so we must re-interpret this also."

However, they fail to realise that science deals with repeatable observations in the *present*, while billions of years ideas are based on assumptions about the unobservable, unrepeatable *past*. Thus science can never show the world is billions of years old. Rather, we should rely on the eye-witness of One who was there, knows everything, and never lies or errs. But Woodrow et al. rely on the testimony of people who weren't there, often err and sometimes lie. So they are using the theories of fallible people to interpret the Word of the infallible God.

We should realise that different biases can result in different *interpretations* of the *same* data. For example, great thicknesses of rock layers could conceivably be produced either by a little water over long periods, or a lot of water over short periods. Because sedimentation usually occurs slowly today, it is assumed that it must have always occurred slowly. If so, then the rock layers must have formed over vast ages. The philosophy that processes have always occurred at roughly constant rates ('the present is the key to the past') is often called uniformitarianism.

I show how presuppositions strongly influence explanations about the past in my book Refuting Evolution, and this also contains a chapter on evidence for a 'young' earth and global Flood.

It's sad to see professing evangelical writers fall into the errors that characterise the 'scoffers' prophesied in 2 Peter 3: 'all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' Peter reveals the huge flaw of the uniformitarian scoffers: they are 'willingly ignorant' of special creation by God and a cataclysmic globe-covering (and fossil-forming) flood.

To answer some of Woodrow's specific anti-global-flood arguments:

* The word "erets" translated as earth (Gen. 6:17, 7:19-23) sometimes refers to limited land areas.

However, erets is also used in Gen. 1:1-2, where it must refer to the whole earth. It also fits in with 2 Peter 3:6, where the 'world' was deluged (Greek katakluzo, from which we derive the word cataclysm) by water. Here the Flood is described in universal terms, and paralleled with the coming universal judgment. _Erets_ is often used to refer to the entire dry land surface, e.g. Gen. 1:10ff.

*Woodrow says that the phrase in Gen. 7:19,20 "under the whole heavens" is often used in a limited way e.g. Deut. 2:25.

But no one denies that such phrases are sometimes used in a limited way, or that 'all' is sometimes less than universal. But in the Flood account, God is going out of his way to emphasize the universality of the Flood -- from Genesis 7, NIV: 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and *all* the high mountains under the *entire* heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21 *Every* living thing that moved on the earth perished -- birds, livestock, wild animals, *all* the creatures that swarm over the earth, and *all* mankind. 22 *Everything* on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 *Every* living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. *Only* Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. Question: just suppose, for the sake of the argument, that God had wanted to teach a global flood -- how could He have said it more clearly than in Gen. 7?

*Woodrow argues that it would require 726 feet of rain per day for 40 days to cover the mountains.

But this assumes that the mountain were at their present height. However, much uplift happened during and shortly after the Flood (Ps. 104:8, 'The mountains rose; the valleys sank down' as the NASB correctly translates it). This is because of the catastrophic earth movements and huge amounts of still-unconsolidated sediments. Woodrow never bothered to find out what creationists actually teach, so set up a straw man, here and many other places. As computer programmers say, 'garbage in, garbage out'.

* Another straw man: cold and thin air above Mt. Everest?

Again, faulty assumption. Also, Woodrow is ignorant of the fact that air pressure depends on the height of the air column over the earth, relative to the main sea level, not altitude as such. Thus even if the Ark was above the mountains, because the sea level was also higher, the pressure would have been almost normal.

*Woodrow has a whole chapter claiming that Ark's crew could not have cared for all the animals.

Woodrow slavishly follows the usual bibliosceptical ploys, assuming that the animals needed to be taken care of, one at a time. But plenty of labour-saving mechanisms would have been available to the crew of eight, for example, long sloping troughs for both food and water that could have been loaded from only a few central filling stations. There are also systems to deal with waste, e.g. sloped or slatted floors; very deep, absorbent bedding; vermicomposting.

Don't waste your money on Woodrow's book -- buy John Woodmorappe's scholarly and comprehensive book _Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study_ for thorough demolition of all attacks on the Ark by atheists and their compromising evangelical lackeys. Woodmorappe shows that only 16,000 land animals would have been needed on board as passengers, and also covers a wide range of topics including rapid post-Flood variation, generation of rare alleles, food for the animals after disembarkation, and much more.

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Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled (Prophetic Series, One)

Manufacturer: Voice of Evangelism
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Binding: Paperback

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Unleashing the beast: How a fanatical islamic dictator will form a ten-nation coalition and terrorize the world for forty-two months

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Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled" 2005 prophecy book by Perry Stone. Understand the Prophetic times and seasons we live in. Watch and learn of the repeating SIGNS of the Days of Noah and Lot. See amazing parallels between recent events of Tsunamis, Hurricanes, and Volcanoes and the days of Noah and Lot and how these events are a part of the final prophecies concerning the last days. You will learn: Why Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India were hardest hit by the tsunamis How the tsunamis were the beginning of the fulfillment of Luke 21:25 Why God allows children to die during a major disaster Proof that the birth pangs mentioned in Matthew 24:8 are increasing Why so many hurricanes struck the Florida coast How spiritual battles in the heavens can impact weather on earth How volcanoes will fulfill several unusual Biblical prophecies How God is allowing selective judgement before the coming tribulation This book will answer many questions and help you understand the time of the end and the soon return of Christ.

A time to dance;: Noah and the waters and other poems, with an essay, Revolution in writing,

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A time to dance;: Noah and the waters and other poems, with an essay, Revolution in writing,
C Day Lewis
Manufacturer: Random House
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As It Is In The Days Of Noah

Manufacturer: Hearthstone Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0974476471

The quest for Noah's ark;: A treasury of documented accounts from ancient times to the present day of sightings of the ark & explorations of Mount Ararat ... ascent to the summit of Noah's mountain

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History plus author's journey to Ararat

The quest for Noah's ark;: A treasury of documented accounts from ancient times to the present day of sightings of the ark & explorations of Mount Ararat ... ascent to the summit of Noah's mountain
John Warwick Montgomery
Manufacturer: Dimension Books, Bethany Fellowship
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0871234777

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great work, a small criticism.......2002-02-03

excellent documentation and sources, footnotes exceptional. A serious scholar, but he could not keep his Christian slant from his interputations, it shows in spots. He also used !!! several times, Very unacceptable for a scholarly work. though they could have been added by editiors.
He could have stressed more heavily that the ARK was not a ship or boat, rather a flatbottom, box or barge. Thus down playing the several reports of sighting a prow or deepwater hull.
This persistent Christian representation of a huge sea-going vessels aptly illustrates the problems cause by lack of concern of basic accuracy.(not on the author's part however)
BUT WORTH READING.

History plus author's journey to Ararat.......2001-02-02

Profound and prolific writer tells not the only the history up until early 1970's but includes his own trip with his son up on Mt. Ararat.

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