Peg Mullen - Unfriendly Fire: A Mothers Memoir (Singular Lives)
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In 1968 Michael Mullen was drafted and sent to Vietnam. In 1970 he was killed by the same friendly fire that destroyed the lives of thousands of others during the Vietnam War. Michaels parents made his death a crusade to awaken all mothers and fathers to the insanity of war. In Unfriendly Fire, Mullen shifts from symbol to reality as she tells her story in print for the first time. Photos.
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Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography Albert E. Stone, Series Editor
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Unfriendly Fire
A Mother's Memoir
Peg Mullen
Foreword by Albert E. Stone
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1995 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mullen, Peg, 1917 Unfriendly fire: a mother's memoir / Peg Mullen; foreword by Albert E. Stone. p. cm.(Singular lives) ISBN 0-87745-506-6, ISBN 0-87745-507-4 (pbk.) 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975 Protest movementsUnited States. 2. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975 Casualties (Statistics, etc.). 3. Mullen, Peg, 1917- .4. Mullen, Michael Eugene, 19441970. I. Title. II. Series. DS559.5.M84 1995 959-704'3373dC20 94-48108 CIP
This book is dedicated to the victims of the Vietnam War of all colorsthe millions of young men and women whose lives, limbs, and minds were destroyed by a succession of unscrupulous men in power.
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When the war has ended and the road is open again, The same stars will course through the heavens. Then will I weep for the white bones heaped Together in desolate graves Of those who sought military honors for their Leaders. From the diary of an unknown North Vietnamese soldier, 1965
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Contents
Foreword
by Albert E. Stone
xi
Introduction
xvii
Acknowledgments
xix
Chapter One : October 16, 1989
1
Chapter Two : Michael
6
Chapter Three : Your Son Is Dead
18
Chapter Four : The Homecoming
25
Chapter Five : A Silent Message
31
Chapter Six : The Marines
44
Chapter Seven : WBZ
55
Chapter Eight : Private Ed Hall
64
Chapter Nine : I Go to See the President
72
Chapter Ten : The Draft
79
Chapter Eleven : Mothers and Veterans
90
Chapter Twelve : Friendly Fire
100
Chapter Thirteen : Gene
113
Chapter Fourteen : A New War
123
Epilogue : Michael's Letters Home
139
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Foreword
by Albert E. Stone
Unfriendly Fire is surely a singular contribution to the discussion, flourishing now for more than two decades, of the meanings of the Vietnam War for American culture. As a mother's memoir, Peg Mullen's autobiography challenges and complements nearly all other voices and viewpoints in this wide-ranging debate. Neither an apologist for the government and military nor a returned veteran, neither a novelist nor a New Journalist, Peg Mullen tells her story simply and passionately as a special witness from the homefront. But hers is not only a mother's voicemuted as these have often beenkeening over the loss of nearly 58,000 American lives. Her particular fate has been to be the mother of a soldier killed by friendly fire, dead in his sleep from an artillery shell ostensibly fired in support of the infantry unit of which, on February 18, 1970, Michael E. Mullen was an acting platoon sergeant. Though victims of friendly fire were but one segment of the more than 10,000 nonhostile casualties, their number was never small. Governmental policy and military censorship kept this grisly feature of the conflict as confidential as possible. In part to expose such subterfuges in language and action, but also on behalf of the thousands of American families afflicted by this ironic calamity and, above all, to express her own and her husband's mystified outrage, Peg Mullen has written this eloquent account of one Iowa family's suffering and sacrifice. Her title deliberately unmasks one of her country's more egregious euphemisms of modern warfare.
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