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VIETNAM

DIANE CARLSON EVANS’ STORY

DIANE CARLSON EVANS’S STORY

Performed by Kathy Baker

2021 National Memorial Day Concert
underscore music from the National Symphony Orchestra

The country was embarking on the Vietnam War. Young men all over the nation were being drafted and dying, while every night the war was playing out on the six o’clock news in living rooms across America.

In her second year of nursing school, Diane Carlson heard an Army recruiter on the radio say that nurses were needed. She enlisted immediately and volunteered to go to Vietnam, determined to save lives. Twenty-one years old, she’d nursed in hospitals and ERs, but nothing could prepare her for what she’d encounter in Vietnam.

SARA BAREILLES PERFORMS “YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND”

Honoring Vietnam Nurse, Diane Carlson Evans