Vietnam Women's Memorial
The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War, most of whom were nurses. It serves as a reminder of the importance of women in the conflict. It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and is located on National Mall in Washington D.C., a short distance south of The Wall, north of the Reflecting Pool.
Diane Carlson Evans, RN, a former Army nurse, founded the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project in 1984. The monument was designed by Glenna Goodacre and dedicated on November 11, 1993.
The memorial has been described as inaccurate as it depicts nurses giving field medical care when such primary care was only given by U.S. Army medics and U.S. Navy corpsmen, with nurses working exclusively in military hospitals.
