{"product_id":"healing-wounds-a-vietnam-war-combat-nurses-10-year-fight-to-win-women-a-place-of-honor-in-washington-d-c","title":"Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, D.C.: \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the end, those wounded soldiers who had survived proved to be there for their sisters-in-arms, joining their fight for honor in Evans' 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.\r","brand":"Diane Carlson Evans, Bob Welch, Joseph Galloway","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44464174203116,"sku":"9781682619124","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781682619124.jpg?v=1719589395","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/healing-wounds-a-vietnam-war-combat-nurses-10-year-fight-to-win-women-a-place-of-honor-in-washington-d-c","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}