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Now let’s take a look at this picture. I’m sure some of you have seen it before. It was taken at the time of the Vietnam War/in 1972. Here/a young girl,/Kim Phuc,/is running down a road in pain,/with her clothes burned off. This is what she once said/about the experience:
“I didn’t hear anything,/but I saw the fire around me. And suddenly/my clothes were gone/because of the fire. And I saw the fire over my body,/especially my arm. But my feet weren’t burned. I was crying,/and I was running out of the fire. I kept running and running and running.
“I was in the hospital. Fourteen months. I went through 17 operations/to repair the burns over half my body. And that thing changed my life. It made me think about how I could help people.
“When my parents first showed me the picture from the newspaper,/I couldn’t believe that it was me,/because it was so terrible. I want everybody to see that picture,/because in that picture/people can see what war is. It’s terrible for the children. You can see everything in my face. I want people to learn from it.”
Now let’s take a look at this picture. I’m sure some of you have seen it before. It was taken at the time of the Vietnam War/in 1972. Here/a young girl,/Kim Phuc,/is running down a road in pain,/with her clothes burned off. This is what she once said/about the experience:
“I didn’t hear anything,/but I saw the fire around me. And suddenly/my clothes were gone/because of the fire. And I saw the fire over my body,/especially my arm. But my feet weren’t burned. I was crying,/and I was running out of the fire. I kept running and running and running.
“I was in the hospital. Fourteen months. I went through 17 operations/to repair the burns over half my body. And that thing changed my life. It made me think about how I could help people.
“When my parents first showed me the picture from the newspaper,/I couldn’t believe that it was me,/because it was so terrible. I want everybody to see that picture,/because in that picture/people can see what war is. It’s terrible for the children. You can see everything in my face. I want people to learn from it.”