Kim Phuc Phan Thai, known as the Napalm Girl, was the subject of one of the most shocking pictures during Vietnam War.  At that time she was 9 years old and we could see her running in pain, suffering from Napalm burn naked.  This is the Napalm girl photo.

Kim Phun Phac Thai is now 46 years old and lives in Canada, where she spoke to the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors:

“Sixty-five percent of my body got burned,”

She had to spend more than  a year in a burn unit and had to undergo several operations.

“I should be dead, But I was spared, so now I think, ‘I cannot change something that happened to me already. But I can change the meaning.’ “

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