SHARON ANN LANE

SIZE: Lifesize

MEDIUM: Bronze

FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA, OKALOOSA VETERANS PARK

BRAVERY is the theme of this sculpture.

A United States Army nurse and the only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire in the Vietnam War. The Army posthumously awarded Lane the Bronze Star Medal for heroism on June 8, 1969. .Just four days before being mortally wounded by enemy fire while working in the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam, 1LT Sharon Ann Lane signed a letter to her parents in her characteristically upbeat manner, “See you sooner.”

SHARON ANN LANE

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