Unfriendly Fire : A Mother's Memoir by Peg Mullen (1995, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press
ISBN-100877455066
ISBN-139780877455066
eBay Product ID (ePID)338983
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnfriendly Fire : a Mother's Memoir
Number of Pages175 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Military / Vietnam War, General
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorPeg Mullen
Book SeriesSingular Lives Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN94-048108
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal959.704/3373
SynopsisIn 1968 Michael Mullen, a graduate student in biochemistry, was drafted; in 1969 he was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf's Charlie Company; and in 1970 he was killed by the same OC friendly fireOCO that destroyed thousands of other lives during the Vietnam War.Back home on the family farm in Iowa, his parents made his death a crusade to awaken all parents to the insanity of war. C. D. B. Bryan's "Friendly Fire" and the TV movie of the same name documented these dramatic years, and Peg Mullen became a national symbol of grassroots activism. Now Peg Mullen shifts from symbol to reality as she tells her story in print for the first time.Outspoken, fearless, and wickedly humorous, Peg Mullen had a duel mission in the years after Michael's death: to penetrate the lies and evasions behind the artillery misfire that killed her oldest son and to publicize the senseless horror of the Vietnam War. "Unfriendly Fire" draws on the many letters sent to the Mullens after Michael's death; in addition, Michael's own bitter, weary letters home are reprinted. In these the voices of parents, brothers, sisters, comrades, teachers, and Michael himself echo Peg Mullen's call for truth and peace."
LC Classification NumberDS559.5.M84 1995
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