Barbara Mullen has been a member of the National Organization of Women (NOW) since 1973 and is a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee and several other Democrat organizations. She received the Vietnam War Commemoration from the Department of Defense for her contributions in bringing home the remains of POWs left behind on the war front. Mullen has appeared as a military POW wife in newspapers and magazines nationwide, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Time. She has also been interviewed on radio and television, including Fox TV News, CBS, and CNN. She has published four other books: Every Effort (1986), When You Marry a Man with Children (1990), Dominic's Daughter (2006), and Unsafe Harbor (2012).
