Carol Ann Elizabeth Drazba (December 11, 1943 – February 18, 1966) was one of the first two American nurses killed in the Vietnam War.
[13] The Friends of the Forgotten erected a six-foot bronze statue in her honor in 2012,[14][15] at the Gino J. Merli Veterans’ Center,[16] on the site of her former hospital in Scranton.
[18] In November 2019, Elizabeth Warren sponsored Senate Resolution 415, requesting that the U. S. Postmaster General issue a commemorative stamp series in honor of women veterans.
Drazba was named in the text of the resolution, as one of the examples of the sacrifices women in military service have made in the history of the United States.
[19] Drazba’s name appears on Panel 05E, Line 046, of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.[20][21][22] The landscape surrounding the Vietnam Women's Memorial includes eight yellowwood trees that represent the eight American servicewomen who died during the Vietnam War - Drazba, Eleanor Grace Alexander, Pamela Dorothy Donovan, Annie Ruth Graham, Elizabeth Ann Jones, Mary Therese Klinker, Sharon Ann Lane, and Hedwig Diane Orlowski.