Diane Carlson Evans watched her brothers, neighbors, and other male friends ship off to Vietnam, and knew she had to go as well. After completing nursing school in her home state of Minnesota, Evans registered for the Army Nurse Corps and never looked back. “How could the Army have trained us? War is the only training for war.” A nurse in two different hospitals and head nurse of one, Evans experienced every faction of the war: sexism; sexual assault; witnessing countless men, women and children die; comradery that helped her come to terms with her time in Vietnam. Thirty years after returning home, Evans recognized the mistreatment women Vietnam veterans received, and founded the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C.. Evans recounts her tumultuous wartime experiences and her revolutionary advocacy that still impact women in the military today.