Diane Carlson Evans served in the Army Nurse Corps in 1968 and 1969 in the Vung Tau and Pleiku provinces, and is the author of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, DC.
She was the founder and president of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, and worked for ten years to create that memorial to the 250,000 women who served in Vietnam.