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Drafted into the US Army, Michael Mullen left his family's Iowa farm in September 1969 to fight for his country in Vietnam. Six months later, Michael was killed, not by the North Vietnamese, but by artillery fire from friendly forces. With the government failing to provide the precise circumstances of his death, Mullen's devastated parents, Peg and Gene, demanded to know the truth. A year later, Peg Mullen was under FBI surveillance. In a riveting narrative that moves from the American heartland to the jungles of Vietnam, to an interview with Mullen's battalion commander, Lt. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Bryan brings to life a military mission gone wrong, a family's explosive confrontation with their government, and the tragedy of a nation at war with itself.
- Sales Rank: #2654958 in Books
- Published on: 1976-05-21
- Released on: 1976-05-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 380 pages
About the Author
C. D. B. Bryan (1936-2009) was an award-winning author of nonfiction books, novels, and magazine articles. After graduating from Yale University, where he was chairman of the campus humor magazine, and serving in the army in Korea, Bryan wrote for The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Book Review, and taught writing at Colorado State University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Antiwar Memoir of Bereaved Farm Family
By SeattleBookMama
Bryan was a journalist and author during the mid-twentieth century, and Friendly Fire, which originally began as a story for the New Yorker and grew into something more, tells the story of the Mullen family and their response to the death of Michael, a clean-cut young man that answered his draft notice, dutifully served and was killed by friendly fire not long after he was sent to Vietnam. Thanks goes to Open Road Integrated Media and to Net Galley for the invitation to read and review. This is right up my alley and I found it compelling. It was published digitally May 10, 2016 and is now available for purchase.
Michael Mullen was the favorite son of Iowan farmers Gene and Peg Mullen, working farmers steeped in traditional values and respect for authority, who had never questioned the US involvement in Vietnam. If the government said that US forces were fighting there to contain the spread of communism and keep Americans safe, then it must be so. Michael was the kind of young man that called people “ma’am” and “sir”. When his effects were delivered to his family following his death, there were no fewer than three rosaries he’d carried on his person. He had expected to return from service, as his father had done from an earlier war, and inherit the family farm. His family was part of the Silent Majority to which governmental authorities referred when defending the role of the USA in Indochina.
In short, they were the last people anyone would have expected to see become anti-war activists.
Michael’s death rocked parents Peg and Gene, and their grief eventually alienated them from the three children left to them. The part of their story that galvanized me was in reading their intelligent, sharp responses during the initial period following their bereavement. For many of us facing the loss of any loved one—and the death of a child is the worst loss of all—ferreting out information about that person’s days, weeks, even months is our last link to them. But Peg and Gene took it to another level when they realized that some of the information they had received was untrue. Peg became an organizational whirlwind, searching for the names and stories of other Iowa boys that had died in that conflict and she realized that the casualties that were being reported to and in the media were incorrect. The responses she received from everyone from US officials to the parish priest were so insensitive, so baldly insulting that she and husband Gene made the war and those near their son when he died into an immense research project, reaching out to newspapers and television news widely. This reviewer grew up during this period and when I read that Peg was on the phone with national newscaster Chet Huntley’s secretary in New York, my jaw dropped! In this era before satellites gave us phones in our pockets and information available at the touch of a keyboard, they typed letters, made long-distance phone calls, and in time even traveled to Washington D.C. in order to know how and why their son had been killed and who was to blame.
The fifth star here is denied because the beginning of the story, which goes into overmuch detail about the family’s genealogical beginnings and its long history in Iowa soil, is deadly dull. When the book was first published, the video game had not yet been invented and readers had longer attention spans. Today if a book does not hook a reader from the start, chances are excellent it will be immediately and forever abandoned. Although the point that the Mullen farm had stood for five generations is surely relevant to the story, the author drags this portion of the story out sufficiently to glaze even the eyes of this history teacher, and together with an awkward introduction that appears to substitute for a bibliography or endnotes, a lot of readers won’t get to the interesting part, and that’s a crying shame.
Ultimately the Mullens’ cause alienated them from their community, probably because they were so free in dispensing blame to everyone that drew breath. Everyone that had not actively opposed the war was called out at some point. The heat of their rage and grief lacked focus. In many ways they undid a lot of the good they had done by cursing old friends and neighbors simply because they had never done anything about the war.
The story will interest those that research conspiracies. The Mullens believed more deception was in play than actually was, yet when a person knows he has been lied to about one thing, it is the intelligent thing to do to wonder how much more one was told is also untrue. And so as they relentlessly sought to find one particular officer that might be to blame for the friendly fire that killed their son, I wanted to bang my head on the wall, because it was so much more than that; the conspiracy, we know now, was seated in the Oval Office, jotting more names, possibly their own, onto his enemies’ list. Targeting this soldier or that minor officer was just wrong-headed, but when people are hurt, they lash out, and the Mullens did so exponentially.
The end of the book deals with the author’s own motivation in following the Mullens and their search for the truth so diligently; nevertheless, it seemed strange to find a host of author photos at the end of the book rather than of the Mullen family.
Had the editing of this digital edition been given to me along with permission to do anything I wished, I would have tightened up the beginning, put the author’s notes at the end of the book rather than the start, and deleted the photo section entirely.
Nevertheless, those with an interest in the struggle to end the US war in Vietnam will find this story well worth reading, and to them I recommend this memoir.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Friendly Fire, Unfriendly Followup
By Lew Button
Friendly Fire; C.B.D. Bryan: Open Road Integrated Media
C. S. Lewis in one of his books opines that evil is not done in the sordid dens of iniquity so prominent in the writings of Dickens but rather it is conceived and ordered in clean, carpeted, warm and well-lighted offices. He adds that his symbol for Hell is something like a bureaucracy. I wonder what Lewis would have said about Hell after reading Friendly Fire.
The Mullen family certainly found the government bureaucracy a rather hellish place when they tried to find out how their son died in Vietnam. What they eventually found, what was not readily forthcoming, was their son had died due to a misfired mortar from American artillery. The Mullens spent the years after the death of their son, Michael, on a mission to find out what happened and to protest the War in Vietnam. (They used Michael’s death benefit to buy an ad protesting the war.)
The story told by the author is well researched and presented in a readable way. It is, in my opinion, written from a position of detachment. The author does not take a side in the debate over the war itself. He certainly must have experienced frustration about the obfuscation of the bureaucrats but he also took the Mullens to task for false information that fueled their anger.
Mr. Bryan was given time to interview those who were in country at the time of Michael’s death, including Norman Schwarzkopf, then a Lt. Colonel. He interviewed those who were with Michael when he died and he reconstructs as accurately as possible the last night of Michael Mullen.
Reading this book took me back to those years. I was in Washington D.C. during the early years of the war. I was quite familiar with the protests including the in“ hog”auration of President Nixon. I was also able to hear Senator Mark Hatfield give his views on the war. However, like most young people at that time, I had friends and classmates in Vietnam. For me the soldiers were not agents of the military industrial complex, they were people with names and faces.
I appreciated the sensitivity of the author in presenting this story of real people, those who left and those who waited.
I received an electronic copy of this book from Netgalley.com with the sole understanding that I would read it and write a review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Utterly brilliant book about the perils of war
By DixieChick
Utterly brilliant book about the perils of war; the tragedy of friendly fire; and the agony of parents trying to come to terms with the death of a beloved son. Also, a stunning portrait of an early Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf before he became a Four Star general and an international household name in the Persian Gulf War. It was Schwarzkopf who ordered the artillery shell that accidentally killed Michael Mullen and one other soldier in Vietnam. C.D.B. Bryan is a masterful writer, and this is a magnificent book.
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