By Traci Badalucco
Diane Evans puts down the phone to remove her pecan pie from the oven in preparation for holiday festivities with her family. When she returns, she continues recounting her war terrors — this time, the ones that came back to her in dreams: bloodied faces and dismembered bodies of soldiers and children covered in third-degree burns, patients she treated and some she watched die in Vietnam more than 40 years ago.
“They started to come back one by one,” says Evans, 69, ofĀ the nightmares that started 13 years after she returned
home from her one-year deployment in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. “I would see the fire, and then I would wake up in a cold sweat.”
Evans, who was 21 at the time of her deployment, worked for the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in two evacuation hospitals in Vung Tau and Pleiku.
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