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Kim Phuc – A Picture of Peace

Kim Phuc – A Picture of Peace
Why me? Why did I live? Ten years after napalm scorched her body the answer changed her life.

by Emily Wierenga

Her name may not ring a bell, but no one can forget the haunting Pulitzer Prize winning picture; the one that plastered the world with guilt and shame, helped to catalyze ceasefire in Vietnam, and ultimately brought America to its knees. Kim Phuc Photograph by Nick Ut, The Associated Press. Phan Thi Kim Phuc is “the girl in the picture” – the one snapped arbitrarily by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut as he watched the screaming naked girl flee with her cousins and friends from the flames enveloping their village. As Ut dropped his camera and rushed the nine-year-old to safety, he little knew he was sparing the world future warfare.

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痛苦與笑容之間,形成不可理喻的荒謬對比。

是的,

是不可理喻的荒謬;

因為,

是不可理喻的真實。

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