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What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the first-ever memorial on the National Mall to honor women who'd worn a military uniform, she wouldn't be deterred. She remembered not only her sister veterans, but also the hundreds of young wounded men she had cared for, as she expressed during a Congressional hearing in Washington, DC: Women didn't have to enter military service, but we stepped up to serve believing we belonged with our brothers-in-arms and now we belong with them at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. If they belong there, we belong there. We were there for them then. We mattered. In the end, those wounded soldiers who had survived proved to be there for their sisters-in-arms, joining their fight for honor in Evans's journey of combating unforeseen bureaucratic obstacles and facing mean-spirited opposition. Her impassioned story of serving in Vietnam is a crucial backstory to her fight to honor the women she served beside. She details the gritty and high-intensity experience of being a nurse in the midst of combat and becomes an unlikely hero who ultimately serves her country again as a formidable force in her daunting quest for honor and justice.

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Janet Metzger, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has performed as a stage, television, voice, and film actor and as a jazz vocalist in hotels and supper clubs. For five years she was the voice of Headline News, now HLN, during which time she also promoted features and news stories for CNN and CNN International. She is a graduate of Florida State University. Bob Welch is a seasoned journalist and the award-winning author of more than twenty books, including The Wizard of Foz, which won the 2019 Track & Field Writers of America's Book of the Year. Diane Carlson Evans, a former captain in the Army Nurse Corps who served in the combat zone of Vietnam, is the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, Inc. She served as president and CEO of the Foundation's board of directors-headquartered mainly in Washington, DC-for thirty years. Today she advocates for veterans and speaks nationally about the contribution of women during wartime. She has received numerous honorary doctorate degrees and prestigious awards from civic and veterans organizations.

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