Healing Wounds
A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

This was a most fascinating read for me. After finishing The Women by Kristin Hannah, I just wasn’t ready to let that era go. I saw that she used this book as part of her research for her book. Being raised in the Washington D. C. area, I remember when this monument was placed, but didn’t remember t......more

So much written about this war, mostly from a males viewpoint. This book tells the times, what was happening, the views on this war, but from a Woman's view. Diane was not by choice, desire, but wanted to honor those woman who served. Getting the Memorial was a eye awakening that one could not accep......more

4.5 ⭐️ Kind of wish I read this before I read The Women. You can really tell how much info Kristin Hannah pulled from this book- from war stories to healing when back in the US. Super informative!......more

I wanted to read this nonfiction account of nurses serving during the Vietnam war because I loved reading Kristen Hannah's The Women. I enjoyed the retelling of the authors history at the beginning. However, most of the story was about the political hoops she was forced to jump through in order to m......more

One of the bffs told me this was a must read for me, and she couldn’t have been more spot on. I’m low key obsessed with women’s monuments and how women are memorialized in public history, so this memoir of Diane Carlson Evans’s service as a combat nurse in Vietnam and her subsequent fight for a memo......more