Sun 03 July 2022:
After 50 years, Kim Phuc Phan Thi, a Vietnamese woman whose burned and agonized photograph came to represent the effects of the Vietnam War, received her final skin treatment.
When napalm was dropped by a South Vietnamese Skyraider attack aircraft in 1972, a photograph of Kim Phuc Phan Thi, then nine years old, fleeing along a road unclothed and wailing in anguish caused a sensation throughout the world.
Nick Ut, the photographer who took the picture in June 1972, picked her up and took her somewhere else to get medical help.
The photographer from the Associated Press received a Pulitzer Prize for the image. She was given the nickname “Napalm Girl” as a result of the incident.
She eventually recovered from her injuries and lived in Vietnam until 1992 before moving to Canada with her husband, where she still lives. But she continued to live with pain and limited movement.
This week, the 59-year-old woman had her 12th and final round of laser treatment on her torso at the Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute, NBC 6 South Florida reported.
Following the surgery, she also met the photographer, whom she credits with saving her life.
“Now 50 years later, I am no longer a victim of war, I am not the Napalm girl, now I am a friend, am a helper, I’m a grandmother and now I am a survivor calling out for peace,” Phan Thi told CBS last month.
“live with love, hope, and forgiveness. and “If everyone can learn to live like that we don’t need war,” she added, emphasizing her wish.
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