Phan thi kim phuc biography definition
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Born c.1963
Trang Bang, South Vietnam
Vietnamese woman who appeared in a famous photograph that showed young victims of a U.S.-ordered napalm attack; became a symbol of forgiveness and healing after she laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1996
"Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered—more than me. . . . Their whole lives were destroyed, and nobody took that picture."
In 1972 a nine-year-old Vietnamese child named Phan Thi Kim Phuc was photographed running naked down a country road after suffering terrible burns from a U.S.-ordered napalm attack on her village. The photograph received a Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War's violence and cruelty. Twenty-four years later, however, Kim Phuc also became a symbol of reconciliation when she laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in memory of the U.S. soldiers who died in the war.
Growing up in wartime
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“Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days, but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are much more powerful.” — Kim Phuc Phan Thi
Kim Phuc Phan Thi, best known as the 9-year-old child running away from a napalm attack that was captured in a famous Vietnam War photograph 50 years ago, will speak at University of the Ozarks at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the Rogers Conference Center.
The event, which is part of the Walton Arts & Ideas Series, is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kim-phuc-phan-thi-wais-event-tickets-272137298987.
University Covid protocols, including masks and social distancing, will be in place throughout the event.
Known as the Napalm Girl, Kim was immortalized in the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, “The Terror of War” taken by AP photographer Huyng Cong Nick Ut. The photo shows her screaming
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Inspiring Women – Phan Thi Kim Phuc
PHAN THI KIM PHUC had only recently turned 9 years old when a soldier told her to run. It was June 8, 1972, in the latter years of the Vietnam War. Kim Phuc ran, but she stopped to help a child. Then the fire came. It burned away her clothing, and the anguish of “the little napalm girl” was captured for the world by an Associated Press photographer. Following many painful years of recovery, she became a victim again—this time as a tecken by the communist government. Today, Kim Phuc has regained her spirituality, her wellbeing. She has launched The KIM Foundation International to help child-victims of war, violence, and deprivation. As she so eloquently says, “The only thing that inom hope people learn from my life story fryst vatten that ‘the little napalm girl’ fryst vatten no längre a victim.”
You are known globally from a photograph taken during the Vietnam War and carried on the cover of Time Magazine. What is your name?
My name is Kim Phuc Ph