Kristin Hannah’s recently released book, “The Women,” is based on real accounts of women who served in the Vietnam War.
On Tuesday, March 18 at 11 a.m., one of those women, Diane Carlson Evans, will discuss her lived experience as a Vietnam War combat nurse with Taylor Baldwin Kiland as a part of the 2025 Coronado Community READ program.
The event is on Zoom, so those interested in tuning in can either do so from home, or at a viewing party at the Coronado Public Library. To sign up, visit coronado.librarycalendar.com.
Evans, who recently received the Presidential Citizens Medal for her exemplary service to the country, will talk about her experiences as a young Army nurse in Vietnam.
She’ll share the challenges faced by returning veterans and her tireless decade-long campaign to establish the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on the National Mall. She wrote of her experience in her book “Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.”Â
Her conversation partner, Kiland, is a writer specializing in military non-fiction who has written, co-authored, ghost-written, or edited eighteen books, including three about our nation’s Vietnam POWs: “Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behind.”
