"Fifty years later, I am no longer a victim of war, a girl in Napalm, a friend, a helper, and I am now with my grandmother. I have survived for peace. "
Naked iconic photos were taken in 50 It was a year ago. , 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Ti — much of her clothes and skin on her back burned down by napalm — attracted worldwide attention.
The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut's award-winning photo, named "Napalm Girl," is one of the most famous war photographs to date. is. It helped to make the American people oppose the war.
Kim Phuc's recovery required almost two years and 17 surgeries, but years later she was still suffering from severe physical and mental pain.
She states that converting to Christianity as a young woman changed everything. Her photographs, which she once hated to capture all of her pain, were the key to her children's lifelong work, peace and forgiveness.
Phuc writes about what she calls "elephant skin" and some of the ongoing problems caused by her childhood burns, but theNew York Post , Phuc reportswhat he currently has. Her last skin treatment.
With the kindness of Dr. Jill Weibel, a surgeon at the Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute in Florida , Phuc is part of her back. I received laser treatment at. She is still experiencing prolonged pain.
Her professional treatment began a few years ago. Dr. Weibel knows Hook's history and has done all her work for free.
Her first burns she received as a child were so bad that doctors were convinced that Hook would die.
It was Associated Press photographer Nick Ut who rushed her to the hospital. As he said toToronto Sunat the beginning of June, Ut, then 21 years old, put Phuc in his car, but the hospital they first went to chased them. I tried to pay.
"I took her to a hospital in Saigon and showed her a press pass," Ut said.
"If she dies, my picture will appear on the top pages of all newspapers in the world tomorrow."
"They took her right away."
Kim Phuc went into exile in Canada in 1992 and she is still outside Toronto. I live in. She and her husband raised two sons here and now have five grandchildren.
And she and Ut will continue to be her lifelong friends.
Speaker and advocate for children, Phuc is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She founded the Kim Foundation to continue working for her children.
As she told the New York Post, "50 years later, I'm no longer a victim of war. I'm not a girl in Napalm. Now I'm a friend, a helper, and a grandmother. And now I'm surviving in search of peace. "
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