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The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War.It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists.
In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [114] [115] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [116] [117] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [118]
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Stephanie Murphy (born Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung) – first Vietnamese-American Congresswoman representing Florida's 7th congressional district [35] (Democratic) Jacqueline Nguyen – U.S. circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge; [36] first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court [37]
Diane Carlson Evans (born 1946) is a former nurse in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, which established the Vietnam Women's Memorial located at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Heidi maintains that she barely knows her Vietnamese family, and feels she is being exploited. She decides to return to America ahead of schedule, feeling more emotional conflict than ever before. Months after Heidi's visit, she says she occasionally gets letters from her family in Vietnam, but they are all requests for money.
The Vietnam War Red Cross "Donut Dollies" were young, college-degreed women who spent a one-year tour in country as morale boosters for American troops.They ran recreation centers, visited hospitals, and, because of the mobility of the UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, traveled to front-line landing zones and base camps to bring games and smiles to soldiers.
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