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Betty was born to Mr. Smith a hard working butcher, and Mrs. Smith a devoted house wife. In Belfast, Nothern Ireland
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She ended up keeping this name on her nobel prize and it went down in history as this because it was under this name she received her nobel prize even though she divorced Mr. Williams and married Mr Perkins
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She didnt remain a soldier long because she was ridculed when she prayed next to a fallen british soldier who was "The enemy"
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On this fatefull day was the event that drove Betty to do what she thought was right and face her own peaceful war to end the violent war going on in her country.
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Mairead Corrigan, the aunt of the children, incited Betty to the funeral after she heard the Williams was passing around a petion to end the violence and start a peace march.
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Only four days after the incident Williams and Corrigan lead a peace march 10,000 strong of both Protestant and Catholic women.
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This peace march took place one week after the first. This one was 50,000 strong
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She recevied her Prize with the words stating "This prize is not about what one has done but what one will do."
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She happly married Mr Perkins but went down in history as Betty Williams
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Betty made the remark "I woulds like to kill George W. Bush" Williams blamed him for the mass killing in the middle east which involed thousands of deaths of children. She thought it is the duty of every human being to protect human life, failing this duty, we lose our right to life and joy.
