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 symbol 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 I hope people learn from my life story is that ‘the little napalm girl’ is no longer a victim.”
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