What Happened to the Burned Girl in the Iconic Vietnam War Picture?
What Happened to the Burned Girl in the Iconic Vietnam War Picture? Thursday May 20, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)On June 8, 1972, British journalist Christopher Wain was just outside the Vietnamese village of Trang Bang when South Vietnamese bombers circled low and dropped four canisters of napalm on the village. Kim Phuc, who was just nine years old at the time, was caught in the napalm explosion. She started running. Her clothes had caught fire and burned off of her. Wain and his film crew saw her and the other children and took what has become one of the most iconic pictures of the Vietnam War. Wain and his crew then threw water over Kim to stop the burning and took her to a hospital. When Wain checked up on Kim several days later and was told she was expected to die the following day, he managed to get her moved to a specialist hospital, which saved Kim’s life. Thirty-eight
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)On June 8, 1972, British journalist Christopher Wain was just outside the Vietnamese village of Trang Bang when South Vietnamese bombers circled low and dropped four canisters of napalm on the village. Kim Phuc, who was just nine years old at the time, was caught in the napalm explosion. She started running. Her clothes had caught fire and burned off of her. Wain and his film crew saw her and the other children and took what has become one of the most iconic pictures of the Vietnam War. Wain and his crew then threw water over Kim to stop the burning and took her to a hospital. When Wain checked up on Kim several days later and was told she was expected to die the following day, he managed to get her moved to a specialist hospital, which saved Kim’s life. Thirty-eight years later, Kim Phuc and Christopher Wain meet again. Phuc’s life has not been easy. She
