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	Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born 1963) was a resident of the village of Trang Bang, Vietnam.
		After taking the photograph, Út promptly took Kim Phúc to a hospital in Saigon where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she would not survive.
		Kim Phuc is also the name of an underground punk band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Phuc (464 words)

	Y-File
		The photograph showing a young Kim Phuc running naked down the road – her skin ablaze with napalm, her face contorted with pain and terror – changed the way the world viewed not only the Vietnam War, but all wars.
		York is honouring Phuc for her willingness to accept the fame associated with her image, her tireless dedication in helping children from war-torn countries recover from their emotional and physical scars, and for telling her story around the world in a bid to promote peace.
		Phuc expressed her deep desire to give something back to innocent children of war, in thanks for all the help she herself received as a victim of war.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=3475 (633 words)

	ANN
		Kim saw her picture for the first time when she returned from hospital but only realised a decade later the impact it had on the world.
		Kim went there in 1986 when she was 22, and stayed there for six years, first learning Spanish and then studying pharmacy.
		Kim says all she had was her camera, her purse and her husband to start a new life.
	www.asianewsnet.net /level3_template1.php?l3sec=14&news_id=26233 (1070 words)

	The 'girl in the picture' is flying
		This award-winning photo of Kim Phuc and her son Thomas on his first birthday was chosen as one of 300 world-class photographs that celebrate the essence of humanity, a project known as M.I.L.K. (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship).
		KIM PHUC is at the Toronto Airport awaiting the flight that will take her to Washington, DC to meet dignitaries at the White House in her role as head of the Kim Foundation.
		Kim was forced to leave Saigon and her studies to work for her local government, giving interviews with foreign journalists as a mouthpiece for the Vietnamese Government.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/na.cgi?nationalupdates/011127girl (1844 words)

	Trang Bang 8.6.1972 Napalm - Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Hintergrundbericht - Vietnam-Exkursion 1999
		Kim went on to survive although it took 14 months of painful rehabilitation to treat the third degree burns that was over more than half of her body.
		Kim is now a Canadian citizen and shares her thoughts on survival and inspiration.
		Kim Phuc's brother, Phan Thanh Tam - the one with his mouth in a crescent of agony in the famed photo that encapsulated the war's horrors - is now 41 and has a paunch.
	www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de /kus/personen/vn/vn-1972-napalm.htm (581 words)

	An Interview with Kim Phuc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kim Phuc was nine years old on June 8, 1972, when her village, Trang Bang, in South Vietnam was bombed.
		Kim Phuc now lives in Canada with her husband and children.
		For a 2004 op-ed piece by Kim Phuc about the work she is doing today, click here.
	dailydig.bruderhof.org /articles/kim-phuc-2.htm?format=print (1066 words)

	The Leader Online : 01-29-2001 : Campus Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kim Phuc gave a speech at King Hall about her story of recovery and forgiveness that dates back to the Vietnam War.
		Phuc was forced to quit her studies after her acceptance into medical school in Saigon.
		In fact, Phuc was reunited with one of the American soldiers that had been involved in the attack.
	www.fredonia.edu /Leader/2001/01292001/campus.html (2377 words)

	Image of Vietnam War chooses new image of peace - smh.com.au
		Kim Phuc, famously photographed aged nine running from a napalm attack on her village, stands before an image of herself and her son.
		Kim Phuc will go to Iraq, if there is war, if and when she is permitted.
		Ms Phuc is visiting Australia as a peace ambassador for UNESCO, to work for her Kim Foundation, which helps child victims of war, and to promote the MILK exhibition of photographs, which opens at the Opera House tonight.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/10/1044725737746.html (542 words)

	AngeLingo: Politics: Tragedy at Trang Bang
		Ut told the doctors and nurses that he photographed Kim Phuc and the morning events in Trang Bang, urging them to treat Kim Phuc immediately by telling them that her photograph would be shown everywhere throughout the world.
		In a 1997 interview, Kim Phuc, "I see the picture and the documentary [referring to a film that was made about her life in 1997] that makes me remember all the time.
		When Nick Ut took the pictures of Kim Phuc and her family in the heat of the moment, little did he realize the picture would go so far to help expose the horrible truth about the Vietnam war—that war injures and kills not just the soldiers fighting but innocent men, women, and children.
	angelingo.usc.edu /issue01/politics/rodriguez.html (1502 words)

	Napalm strike: the myth of Kim Phuc, the girl in the photo
		Kim's statements may be lovely, but must be viewed with the realization that while she is free to insinuate anything she pleases about the countries which give her refuge and support, she cannot freely criticize the Communist government of her former homeland.
		Kim and the Kim Foundation cannot place blame for the misplaced bombs on the Communists, who assaulted the village, and used civilians for cover.
		It would seem that since Kim Phuc knew that she would be meeting him that day, a man not seeking publicity would choose to meet in a less public place than the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial.
	www.warbirdforum.com /vphoto.htm (1989 words)

	AIM Report - March B, 1998
		Kim Phuc recognized the fame she achieved through the photograph continued to give her box office value, so she was a regular at so-called "peace rallies" both in the United States and Canada.
		Kim Phuc and Plummer were brought together by a Vietnamese poet, Linh Dy Vo, who argues that all Americans must take responsibility for what happened to her country.
		Two points bear noting: (1) what happened to Kim Phuc surely was an awful event, and the girl suffered enormously, but (2) she was one of scores of thousands of innocents harmed during the war.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1998/03b.htm (3632 words)

	MANY TO MANY 64 - Kim Phuc
		On November 10, 1997, Kim Phuc (which means "Constant Happiness") was named a Goodwill Ambassador for A Culture of Peace by UNESCO by Director-General Federico Mayor.
		The image of Kim Phuc, the child, screaming from pain as she fled from the flames destroying the village that once had been her home, is forever imprinted on the retina of humankind.
		Today Kim Phuc says: "Yes, I forgive, but I don't forget in order to prevent the same thing from happening again." Thanking God for saving her life and giving her strength and hope, Kim Phuc firmly believes that "peace must be based on love, emotional understanding and forgiveness.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /GlastonburyArchive/manymany/issue-64/mm-64i.html (430 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . Kim Phuc: Vietnam War Victim . May 22, 1998 \| PBS
		ABERNETHY: Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972 in Vietnam when she and her family were caught in a napalm attack on their village.
		Kim suffered third-degree burns on 75 percent of her body.
		ABERNETHY: Today, at 35, Kim Phuc is married with two sons, a resident of Canada, a Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations, and the head of the Kim Foundation to help children who become victims of war.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week138/profile.html (290 words)

	Picturing War / Biography of Kim Phuc -- the napalmed, running girl -- lets us see the Vietnam War through the eyes of ...
		Kim's family had struggled for generations to achieve a life just a level or two above abject poverty, and to obtain a decent education and a modicum of security for their children.
		Chong re-creates with haunting vividness the day Kim and her family are driven from their refuge in the local Caodai temple and mistakenly dive-bombed by South Vietnamese planes, who had been directed to napalm an attacking Viet Cong force.
		Indeed, Kim Phuc is a living testimonial to the fact that wars do not end, that the damage of war lives on.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/20/RV99836.DTL&type=printable (908 words)

	Kim Phuc
		During the war that devastated her country, Kim Phuc was caught in a napalm attack.
		KIM PHUC is the story of that girl, mutilated by the war, now a young woman trying to surmount the effects of the disaster which befell her.
		Kim's Story: The Road from Vietnam: The story of Kim Phuc, the subject of perhaps the most famous photograph of the Vietnam War - a story of the personal and public healing of wounds from this century's longest, most divisive war.
	www.frif.com /new97/kim_s_sto.html (339 words)

	Kim's Story: The Road from Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kim ran away from the photograph and all its pressures, to claim her own life.
		There, dignitaries struggled to hold back tears as Kim, still in their minds as the little girl the whole world wanted to hold and make better, made it plain that her mission was one of forgiveness and a wider healing.
		Kim's Story culminates in an astonishing, unanticipated meeting between Kim and a former American officier who tells her that he ordered the napalm strike that almost killed her.
	www.frif.com /cat97/k-o/kim_phuc.html (411 words)

	The Kim Phuc Story at CanadianIdentity.com
		The image of Kim Phuc running, which was often used to depict the horror of the Vietnam War, changed Kim's life and also formed a bond between her and photographer Nick Ut. He revisited Vietnam during the 25th anniversary of the war's end and this time took pictures of a peaceful country.
		Phan Thi Kim Phuc was born in 1963 and lived in a small village called Trang Bang located 25 miles west of the capital city Saigon in Vietnam.
		Kim was transferred to the elite Barsky burn clinic in Saigon, where, for months, she hovered between life and death.
	www.canadianidentity.com /p/kim_phuc (1284 words)

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		Kim Phuc is known as “The Girl in the Picture:.
		In November, 1997, Kim Phuc was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO.
		Kim Phuc appears regularly in international media, and was recently a guest of Oprah Winfrey.
	www.caritas.ca /tog2003pop3.html (347 words)

	Girl in photo of napalm attack finds peace \| Home News Tribune Online
		Ironically, this winning woman with the soothing presence is Kim Phuc, the burning young girl featured in the video and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 Vietnam War photo by Nick Ut. She's the naked 9-year-old girl running, pain etched on her face and flailing limbs.
		Phuc also spoke of her family, who spirited her through painful physical-therapy exercises, as well as her deep religious faith (she is a committed Christian) and its role in helping her forgive those who scarred her body and attempted to curtail her freedom.
		Phuc knows from whence she speaks: In 1996, at a Veterans Day commemoration in Washington, D.C., she met and extended forgiveness to the Rev. John Plummer, an American pilot who helped coordinate the air strike on her village.
	www.thnt.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050323/NEWS01/503230412 (602 words)

	Vietnam victim Kim Phuc tells amazing story
		Ill health prevented Vietnam War victim Kim Phuc from speaking in person to a packed audience at the Weyburn Legion Hall on Monday, but her voice and spirit still filled the room.
		Phuc, nine years old at the time, was one of several children hit by the searing Napalm, a sticky substance which can burn skin right through to the bone.
		The disturbing images included Phuc's grandmother carrying her three-year-old cousin as his skin hung off his body; then Phuc herself, running, crying, her back flened, getting water poured over her body by journalists who were at the scene.
	www.weyburnreview.com /News/2000/2000_49/KimPhuc.html (1173 words)

	Untitled Document
		There are also pictures of the two children related to Kim Phuc who died shortly after the incident from napalm inflicted burns.
		Kim Phuc, now a United Nations goodwill ambassador working for world peace.
		Kim Phuc was asked by the Queen about the picture and her life today.
	www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0008/ng1.htm (869 words)

	Untitled Document
		Kim Phuc's relatives gathered around her and the reporters.
		Urged on by Kim Phuc's uncle, Nick commandeered his car, and being one of the few reporters able to communicate with the injured villagers he took over and carried Kim Phuc into the car.
		Only when Kim Phuc was on the operating table did Nick Ut leave the hospital and head towards Saigon, to bring his film to the AP.
	www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0008/ng2.htm (1313 words)

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		This honorary degree recognizes Kim Phuc’s tireless dedication in helping children from war-torn countries recover from their emotional and physical scars, and for telling her story around the world in a bid to promote peace.
		Kim now lives with her husband and two young sons in the Greater Toronto Area, more than 32 years after her harrowing ordeal.
		Kim expressed her deep desire to give something back to innocent children of war for all the help she herself received as a victim of war.
	www.yorku.ca /mediar/archive/Release.asp?Release=718 (547 words)

	Eeporting on Vietnam War
		Kim endured fourteen months of painful rehabilitation for the third degree burns over more than half her body.
		As an adult, Kim would be forced to abandon medical school following renewed international interest in the "symbol of the people's war." After an appeal to the head of the Vietnamese government, she was allowed to leave the country to resume her studies.
		Kim met her future husband while studying in Cuba, and was, by this time, determined to defect to the West.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/War/war_eeportingvietnam.htm (614 words)

	John Tesh Website - Inspirations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When he released the deadly bomb from his helicopter, Plummer didn't know Phan Kim Phuc and her family were hiding in a nearby Buddhist pagoda for refuge.
		On that day as Kim Phuc addressed the audience, she said if she ever met the pilot of the helicopter, she would tell him she forgives him.
		As with Kim Phuc and John Plummer the place to start is to receive the Lord’s mercy and forgiveness through His Son Jesus Christ.
	www.tesh.com /showpage.asp?code=inspdetail&showid=317 (711 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kim Phuc would have to recover not only from her terrible burns, but eventually from her own fame as well.
		In her new book, "The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc and the Photograph That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War," Canadian journalist Denise Chong chronicles Kim Phuc's life before and after the devastation captured on film.
		When Kim Phuc defected to the West [in 1992] the Vietnamese regime was very bitter because it was the Americans who had made the napalm.
	dir.salon.com /books/feature/2000/08/03/chong (2856 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kim Phuc was burn due to an accidental bombing of South Vietnamese position in Trang Bang.
		The photo of Kim Phuc running in terror from a napalm attack is one of the best-known images of the Vietnam War.
		It reveals how Kim Phuc was used as a propoganda tool by the Vietnamese and how she escaped to a new life in Canada.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140280219 (1231 words)

	SUNY Fredonia press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She is Kim Phuc, now a Canadian citizen and mother of two.
		With her arms stretched away from her sides, Kim Phuc was sobbing in agony from napalm burns that had set her clothing afire and eaten into her flesh.
		When, 24 years later, Kim Phuc spoke in Washington, D.C. at the Vietnam War Memorial on Veterans Day, her message of grace and forgiveness was cathartic to both veterans and war protestors alike.
	www.fredonia.edu /prweb/releases/kimphuc.htm (456 words)

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