- The photograph illustrating this article was made 50 years ago. On June 8, 1972, the United States Armed Undes bombed the village of Trang Bang with napalm bombs. Among the victims of this peasant village, a group of children fled and photographer Nick Ut, who was with the Americans who were outside the country, made this picture. In the middle, Phan Thi Kim Phúc, a girl roasted entirely by the napsouls.
Nick Ut is also a Vietnamese, like those victims, named Hu?nh Công Út in Vietnamese. He won the Pulitzer Prize for photography, the most important awards in the world of the American media, in 1972, with the following image: He called it The Terror of War, the terror of war.
Some believe that photography contributed to the end of the Vietnam War. In fact, as early as 1972, American soldiers were fighting less and less and troops were shrinking. It all ended in 1975, when Saigo was conquered by the Communist forces.
Phan Th? Kim Phúc survived the port. It wasn't tender. He tells it himself: "Napalma is the most terrible pain you can imagine. [...] water boils at 100 degrees Celsius and napalma produces temperatures between 800 and 1,200 degrees Celsius."
He was admitted to the hospital for 14 months by performing skin transplants and cures. Later, it became a symbol in the socialist life of Vietnam, but he wanted to make life of his own and study medicine. That's what he got at the end, with a scholarship in Cuba, where he married another medical student. During the boyfriends' journey, before they arrived in Moscow, they made a stop in Canada, and a young marriage got off the plane and asked for asylum. Since then, Kim Phuc has lived in Canada.
In 1996, I apologize to the veteran American soldiers at an event. Also someone who personally participated in the Trang Bang attack. The following year, UNESCO set up the Kim Phúc Foundation to help children who are victims of war.
After 50 years, the photographer and that girl are friends.