Everytime I see this picture it seems to me that it happened yesterday

[NNN0LHI]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th%E1%BB%8B_Kim_Ph%C3%BAc



Kim Phuc Phan Thi, center, running down a road near Trang Bang, Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village of Trang Bang by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force. The village was suspected by US Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold. Kim Phuc survived by tearing off her burning clothes.

Kim Phuc (aged 9) running naked in the middle with her older brother, Phan Thanh Tam (12), crying out to the left. Her younger brother, Phan Thanh Phuoc (5), to the left looking back at the village and to the right are Kim Phu's small cousins Ho Van Bo, a boy, and Ho Thi Ting, a girl.

[stray cat]

1. so if we had 100 other pictures of incidents similar to it or different vantage points

would that create more impact from this picture or less?

[NNN0LHI]

4. This wasn't the first picture of atrocities from Vietnam that I remember seeing

This wasn't until 1972. Tens of thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese people had already died by then. For some reason the photos we were allowed to see up to that point had little effect on the public support for what we were doing in Vietnam.

After all those deaths this one photo on the front page of most American newspapers was enough for many to begin to look inward at themselves and turned against the war.

Sometimes it works that way.

Don

[MNDemNY]

7. Question for you,

Could you direct me to your posts prior to this week, objecting to the release of the photos? No? I thought not.

[slackmaster]

2. It seems like it happened 40 years ago to me, but it's still every bit as horrifying

War sucks, and that is a truly great photograph.

[ShortnFiery]

3. BINGO! Heaven forbid we not have "a military surge" in Afghanistan this summer.

WAR WAR WAR!

Releasing the photos would reveal the horrors of war and what it can lead people into doing.

War is TERRORISM but Obama wants his surge.

The Military Industrial Complex will NOT be denied. :grr:

[madokie]

5. Don you can bet that picture has been replicated many times

in Iraq and Afghanistan during this last 8 years. Us doing to them just like we did to the Vietnamese and Cambodians.

I sometimes wish I hadn't learned of the atrocities that have been committed in our names back through the year because the knowledge of that weighs so heavily on my being.

[TexasProgresive]

6. What ever happend to....?

Kim Phuc is best known as the girl in the famous photo of a Vietnam War napalm-bombing attack near Saigon. She now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. Her organization, Kim Foundation International, aids children who are war victims. Photo courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

“Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed"

The Long Road to Forgiveness.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91964687

[lunatica]

8. thanks for posting about her

I saw a documentary about her. It showed the scars on her back and it gives me a lump in my throat whenever I think about her. I'm really glad she survived and has a normal life. She is amazing

[kentuck]

9. And look at the ARVN soldiers nonchalantly looking back...

They were supposed to provide the security for the new government, also...

[davekriss]

10. It has the same lasting impact on me

I was about their age when I first saw this. It rendered me permanently antiwar.

There are about a dozen other iconic photographs from then and now that have the same deep etching effect on me, creating a thirst for social justice, equality, for fair play, and for transcendent, universal peace.