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Diane Carlson Evans, Army Nurse & Founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project
TV Episode | Biography
MAKERS sits down with Diane Carlson Evans. Evans grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm, went to nursing school in 1966, and inspired by an aunt who served in World War II, left to volunteer for the Army Nurse Corps at age 20. Two years later, ...See moreMAKERS sits down with Diane Carlson Evans. Evans grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm, went to nursing school in 1966, and inspired by an aunt who served in World War II, left to volunteer for the Army Nurse Corps at age 20. Two years later, she got off a plane and walked into a burn unit in Vung Tau, Vietnam. She remembers that her fellow nurses were too concerned with patients to worry about their own safety. "Women, we're fierce. We're like mama bears. It was my job to take care of those men," she says. "Did I think that was brave? No, it was my job." When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was unveiled 35 years ago, Carlson Evans noticed that the hundreds of thousands of women who served in the war weren't recognized. "We've always kept women invisible," says Evans, who lobbied for nine years to build the Vietnam Women's Memorial, the first national monument dedicated to women in the military. "It will be there for kids to see and to know that women can be brave and courageous, too." Today, Carlson Evans still advocates for veterans - particularly for mental health. After her own battle with post-traumatic stress disorder, she now serves multiple organizations that perform research into the psychological effects of war. Written by MAKERS See less
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Updated Oct 25, 2017
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Oct 25, 2017 (United States)

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