“As a girl, I was really ashamed.”
Americans have told him the “Napalm Girl” photo convinced them not to enlist, after the draft ended in 1973.Earlier this week, I had a chance to meet both Ut and the subject of this photograph, Phan Thi Kim Phúc, at an office in downtown Manhattan. To mark the photo’s jubilee, the two went on a tour, speaking to journalists and public officials, even meeting Pope Francis in Italy and.
With that in mind, I asked her: What did it feel like, when she was younger, to be the subject of such a stark, controversial photograph?“As a child, first time I looked at that picture, I was so upset,” she responded. “I was so angry and I hated [Ut], because as a girl, I was really ashamed. I didn’t like that picture for a long time.”
But there was no way for her to escape it, she explained. In postwar Vietnam, other children ostracized her for the scars she carried. Then, the government paraded her around the country as a propaganda symbol. The unrelenting physical and emotional pain gave rise to suicidal thoughts, until she turned to Christianity in the early 1980s, drawing upon her new faith to find strength.
Kim Phúc’s scars are still present—at one point in our conversation, she rolled her sleeve up to show me—but the worst torments are gone. Now, she works with her foundation to aid other children who’ve been brutalized by war and suffering.
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