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04-29-2013, 07:31 AM
June 8, 1972 a South Vietnamese Air Force plane dropped two bombs while an A-1 Skyraider poured napalm onto a group of people in the village of Trang Bang, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in South Vietnam. The pilots mistook the villagers for enemy combatants. In the center of the photo, naked and crying in pain from the napalm is Kim Phuc.
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Following her rescue by Nick Ut, Kim remained in the hospital for 14 months receiving treatment for her third degree burns which covered over half of her body. Upon her release she returned to her village, but required years of physical therapy. In the early 1980s her government subjected her to numerous interviews and used her in propaganda films. Kim became a "national symbol of war" and as such was supervised daily.
Kim was allowed later in life to relocate to Cuba in order to further her education. While there she met a fellow Vietnamese student, Bui Huy Toan with whom she fell in love and married. On their honeymoon to Moscow in 1992 their plane stopped in Canada where the two defected and were granted political asylum. Kim, her husband and two children, Thomas and Stephen currently live in the Toronto area.
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The rest of this amazing story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/28/1205312/-Morning-Open-Thread-The-Napalm-Girl-and-Her-Photographer-Then-and-Now
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Following her rescue by Nick Ut, Kim remained in the hospital for 14 months receiving treatment for her third degree burns which covered over half of her body. Upon her release she returned to her village, but required years of physical therapy. In the early 1980s her government subjected her to numerous interviews and used her in propaganda films. Kim became a "national symbol of war" and as such was supervised daily.
Kim was allowed later in life to relocate to Cuba in order to further her education. While there she met a fellow Vietnamese student, Bui Huy Toan with whom she fell in love and married. On their honeymoon to Moscow in 1992 their plane stopped in Canada where the two defected and were granted political asylum. Kim, her husband and two children, Thomas and Stephen currently live in the Toronto area.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/29574/large/Kim_Phuc_now.jpg
The rest of this amazing story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/28/1205312/-Morning-Open-Thread-The-Napalm-Girl-and-Her-Photographer-Then-and-Now