The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel and Diane Carlson Evans, president, Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation and the Foundation’s Board of Directors request the honor of your presence and your guest at a reception commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the dedication of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Washington, DC -November 10, 2008 - 1:00 – 3:00 pm – Caucus Room, 325 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

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George Dickie, AIA ASLA, the landscape architect of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, is a professor of architecture at Penn State University.

Chair and Founder Vietnam Women's Memorial, Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam, 1968-69 (Army Nurse Corps) getting the ceremonies started

Diane Carlson Evans introduces The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel who hosted a reception commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

Diane Carlson Evans introducing Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

“Veterans Day is traditionally a time when Americans pause to remember and thank all those who have sacrificed in the service of our country,” Scruggs said. “While The Wall was built to remember everyone who served in the Vietnam War—men and women—the Vietnam Women’s Memorial reminds us of the vital roles women played in that conflict.”

Jan C. Scruggs, Diane Carlson Evans, Senator Chuck Hagel

Diane Carlson Evans with George Dickie landscape architect

Diane Carlson Evans with Barbara Lilly, Red Cross, Vietnam 1968-69

Diane Carlson Evans with Artie Muller, National Executive Director Rolling Thunder³ Inc

Diane Carlson Evans with Paul Mahon

Diane Carlson Evans with Rod McBrien

Diane Carlson Evans with Shirley Crowe and Brian Coval

Karen Spears Zacharias with Duery Felton, Jr. Curator, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection with some of 'The Wall' volunteers

Sandy Miller, Artie Muller, Marsha Four

Artie Muller, National Executive Director Rolling Thunder³ Inc., Duery Felton Curator, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection

Diane Carlson Evans, Patrick J. Hughes photographer, Vietnam vet

These Angels represent the Eight women’s names on ‘The Wall’. ‘Welcome Home’ We will be together in paradise some day. Eleanor G. Alexander, Pamela D. Donovon, Carol A. E. Drazba, Annie Ruth Graham, Elizabeth A. Jones, Mary T. Klinker, Sharon Ann Lane, Hedwig D. Orlowski.

Kera O'Bryon singing ‘Til The White Dove Flies Alone’, theme song of the Vietnam Women's Memorial.

Storytelling at the Vietnam Women's Memorial: In Their Own Words - Throughout the day, speakers at the Memorial will tell their stories. Some will be women telling their stories, others will be male veterans and families telling of the extraordinary impact the women had on them.

Michael "Doc' Spresser

Lt. Sharon Ann Lane 1 of 8 Angels on The Wall, ‘you will never be forgotten’ Panel 23 W, Line 122. Doc Spresser Combat Medic 69/70 | 302-947-0866

'Doc' Spresser brought the Angels for his Nurses. Army Reserve 1st Lt. Sharon Ann Lane was the only nurse killed by direct enemy fire during Vietnam. She was assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai. This hospital received a lot of local patients because of its location, and Sharon spent most of her time working in the Vietnamese wards or the ICU. She was working in the 312th’s Ward 4 just before dawn on June 8, 1969 when a 122mm rocket streaked in and exploded, killing two and wounding 27 Americans and Vietnamese. Sharon was hit by shrapnel in the neck and died almost instantly.