After her time in the Army Nurse Corps, Diane Carlson Evans became instrumental in getting a memorial built to honor the hundreds of thousands of women who served during the Vietnam War, including the ...
For Diane Carlson Evans, going to Vietnam to serve as a U.S. Army nurse was a calling. “I left the farm in 1968 to go to Vietnam,” she recalls. “I was a combat nurse, trauma nurse in two ...
Ninety percent of the women who served in Vietnam were nurses, and they saved thousands of lives. Not without cost: all eight of the women killed were nurses. Read our latest issue or browse back ...