NBC Nightly News - 1993-11-11 (bad video)
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[0:00] It rains. It's a nasty combination.
[0:03] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Bro.
[0:07] >> Good evening. President Clinton, who has
[0:09] had a rocky relationship with the
[0:11] nation's military establishment, devoted
[0:13] a good part of his schedule today to
[0:15] Veterans Day ceremonies. At Arlington
[0:17] National Cemetery, he was accompanied by
[0:19] 17 US Army Rangers who survived a Somali
[0:22] firefight that killed 18 others. But
[0:25] today's most moving ceremonies were at
[0:27] the Vietnam War where another group of
[0:30] veterans was finally recognized. NBC's
[0:33] Ed Rabel tonight.
[0:34] >> Attention. Salute.
[0:37] Two. In Washington. It is a day to
[0:40] remember the war dead.
[0:44] >> Who they were. Andrew J. Telus, Thomas
[0:49] L. Ward, Robert C. Wolf.
[0:54] The long bloody war in Vietnam took more
[0:57] than 58,000 American lives.
[1:00] >> You going to take both of my legs?
[1:02] >> 11,000 women, military and civilians
[1:05] served there. Many of them nurses who
[1:07] came under fire. Eight women were
[1:09] killed. Sharon A. Lane, Annie Ruth
[1:13] Graham, Pamela D. Donovan.
[1:18] Today, nearby, one of the combat nurses
[1:21] who survived, Minnesota housewife Diane
[1:23] Evans, saw her dream come true. The
[1:26] unveiling of a new memorial to all the
[1:29] women who served in Vietnam.
[1:31] >> The sun is shining on us. We stand here
[1:34] on this sacred ground in our nation's
[1:36] capital to finally say thank you.
[1:40] Diane Evans struggled for 10 years and
[1:43] prevailed against government agencies
[1:45] and veterans groups opposed to the
[1:47] special tribute. A bronze sculpture
[1:50] portraying a nurse holding a wounded
[1:52] soldier as another woman searches the
[1:54] sky for a medevac helico