Post an Iconic Image

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>

the pic of the girl running naked down the road? i think it was after one of the bombs was dropped on Hiroshima.

[julie*mango]

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ahhh!

[uswe]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>

the pic of the girl running naked down the road? i think it was after one of the bombs was dropped on Hiroshima.
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No, I believe it was the Vietnam War, the little girl lost most of her skin but survived!

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>

the pic of the girl running naked down the road? i think it was after one of the bombs was dropped on Hiroshima.
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if i recall correctly its from Vietnam..the explosion in the back ground i think is napalm

[Yuriatin]

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Mercy! Whappin tuh oonu history skills???



This photo is from the Vietnam War.

Hiroshima was in the '40s and after that Atomic bomb was dropped - Noooooo body was running around like this much less able to stand and point a gun.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>

the pic of the girl running naked down the road? i think it was after one of the bombs was dropped on Hiroshima.
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[Yuriatin]

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And she's alive an well and living in CA.

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This photo of Kim Phuc (full name Phan Th&amp;#7883; Kim Phúc) was taken just after South Vietnamese planes bombed her village. She had only lived because she tore off her burning clothes. AP Photographer Nick Út and NBC cameraman Le Phuc Dinh filmed her and her family emerging from the village, after the air strike, running for their lives. This photo has become one of the most famous and memorable photos of Vietnam and won Nick Út the Pulitzer prize in 1972.


Air Strike on Trang Bang

AP reporter Nick Út was sent to the small village of Trang Bang along Route 1, the highway that leads from Saigon towards the Cambodian border. North Vietnamese troops had taken control of the Highway there and Nick was sent to cover the South Vietnamese soldiers from the 25th Army Division who were ordered to retake Trang Bang and open the Highway. When Nick arrived he and other reporters also on assignment stood with South Vietnamese soldiers just outside the village watching the action.

The South Vietnamese commander of the unit requested an air strike and propeller driven Skyraiders, Korean-war vintage planes from the 518th Vietnamese Airforce Squadron, dropped Napalm on the village. When the smoke cleared villagers from the Trang Bang ran screaming from the village to the soldiers and reporters up the road. Taking pictures with two cameras, his Leica and a Nikon with a long lens, Nick Út remembers seeing Kim Phuc running naked down the street:
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As soon as she saw me, she said: &quot;I want some water, I'm too hot, too hot,&quot; - in Vietnamese, &quot;Nong qua, nong qua!&quot;

And she wanted something to drink. I got her some water. She drank it and I told her I would help her.

I picked up Kim and took her to my car. I ran up about 10 miles to Cu Chi hospital, to try to save her life.

At the hospital, there were so many Vietnamese people - soldiers were dying there. They didn't care about the children.

Then I told them: &quot;I am a media reporter, please help her, I don't want her to die.&quot;

And the people helped her right away.

--Nick Út


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Nick quickly released that without help Kim would die and so drove her and other injured family members to the hospital. Kim already thought she was doomed and while reporters and soldiers tried to treat her horrible wounds she told her brother Tam, &quot;I think I am going to die.&quot; Driving an hour to the provincial Vietnamese hospital in Cu Chi, halfway up the highway to Saigon, Kim passed out from the pain.

The hospital was used to war injuries, and after years of civil war knew that Kim's chances of living were slim to none and tried to triage her, or put her aside so they could treat other wounded who had better chances of living. Only at Nick's urging that the girl had been photographed and her picture would be shown all over the world did the hospital staff agree to operate. Nick didn't leave to develop his film until she was put on the operating table. At first his editors refused to run it because she was naked but when nick explained that she had no clothes because they had been burned off her body they changed their minds and sent it around the world.
Life after the napalm

On June 12, 1972 then American President Richard Nixon was recorded talking to his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussing the Vietnam War. Among other things he was recorded saying they should use the Atomic bomb in Vietnam and talking about Kim's photo said, &quot;I'm wondering if that was fixed,&quot; Haldeman replied, &quot;Could have been.&quot;

While Nixon debated with his staff about whether she was a fraud Kim defied all expectations and after a 14 month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, she returned home to the napalm bombed village of, Trang Bang. Nick continued to visit until the fall of Saigon three years later, in 1975, when he along with other American media employees were evacuated.

As Kim grew up there was a lot of pressure from government and anti-war groups to use her as an anti-war symbol. She requested and was eventually granted permission to move to Cuba to study pharmacy. In was in Cuba that she meet her future husband, Bui Huy Tuan. They were married and a Korean friend paid for a vacation to Moscow in 1992. On the return flight thier the plane stopped over in Gander, Newfoundland, a province in Canada. As it was refueling she and her husband walked off and defected to the Canadian government.

The two live in Ajax, Ontario Canada and have two children, Thomas and Stephen. In 1997 she established the Kim Foundation a non profit charitable organization that funds medical care for child victims of war around the world. For her charity work she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law from York University in Toronto, Ontario, in 2002, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, and the Order of Ontario in 2004.

These days find her touring the world and giving speeches at churches and schools talking about her story, the Kim Foundation and her hopes for peace:
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I should have died

My skin should have burned off my body

But I'm still beautiful, right?

...Don't see a little girl crying out in fear and pain

See her as crying out for peace.
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Excerpts from a July 2007 speech Kim Phuc gave at the Liberty Baptist Church, California
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http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Vietnam_Napalm_Girl

[julie*mango]

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war

[Yuriatin]

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what is it good for

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">war </div></div>

[mountaingal]

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i stand corrected - it was vietnam, not japan.

Yuri - she still lives in Ontario according to the article, although she spoke at a church in California.

although mi coulda miss the part where she move, having a hard time reading the stretch out text.

[Yuriatin]

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Yep - thanks, I know.

I'd already corrected.

Meant to do CA not Cali.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i stand corrected - it was vietnam, not japan.

Yuri - she still lives in Ontario according to the article, although she spoke at a church in California.

although mi coulda miss the part where she move, having a hard time reading the stretch out text. </div></div>

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelli0n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>

the pic of the girl running naked down the road? i think it was after one of the bombs was dropped on Hiroshima.
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After a Napalm attack in Vietnam... The yankee announced that they had just defeated the Vietcong and then a minute later this crowd came running up the road...

The girl was treated in Cuba.... and defected to Kanada.. I beleive she has children and...

[mountaingal]

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wahalla can u hide ur pic of the bull above, or find a smaller pic?

[gourmet]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">forgive my ignorance but what is this picture of... </div></div>
US General Westmoreland at the time dismissed the photo, saying that the little girl had been at a family barbecue and that is how she suffered her injuries.
And they're making the same noises today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not much changes regarding the USA and unnecessary and illegal wars, and the lies they use to maintain them.

[Bandana]

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[mountaingal]

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One for the Canadians. This image captured the irreverence of PET, an attribute that made him either much loved or much despised.


Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, shown performing his famous pirouette during a May 7, 1977, picture session at Buckingham Palace in London.