Peg Mullen

Peg Mullen (born June 11, 1917 in La Porte City , Iowa , † October 2, 2009 there ) was an American writer and pacifist .

biography

Peg Mullen was a farmer from La Porte City, Iowa. She was involved in the Democratic Party of the United States and was a delegate to its national conventions in 1964, 1968 and 1972 .

When her son Michael Mullen was killed during the Vietnam War as a soldier in the United States Army on February 18, 1970 at the age of 25 when an artillery shell was shot too short, she began to campaign against the Vietnam War. She had full-page advertisements published in the Des Moines Register Against the War and organized peace marches. Together with her husband Oscar Gene Mullen, who died in 1986, she tried to find out more about the death of her son.

In 1976 CDB Bryan published the book Friendly Fire about the death of their son. In the 1979 film adaptation, entitled To Die For The Fatherland , Carol Burnett played the role of Peg Mullen alongside Ned Beatty .

She became known through her book Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, published in 1995 , in which she dealt with the death of her son and the search for the true causes of his death, but also with her doubts about the circumstances of the United States Department of Defense Death.

In later interviews she came out against the Gulf War and the Iraq War .

Web links

• CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "Peg Mullen, author of" Unfriendly Fire, "dies"
• NEW YORK TIMES: "Peg Mullen, 92, Who Fanned Her Anger Over Son's Death Into Antiwar Drive, Dies"
• TIME MAGAZINE: "Peg Mullen"