ENCOUNTERS #8: 'Napalm Girl' - KIM PHUC PHAN THI — Transcript

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1. 0:07[Music]
2. 0:10napalm was used extensively in the
3. 0:12vietnam war
4. 0:13it's an incendiary mixture of gelling
5. 0:15agent
6. 0:16and petrol and burns of temperatures
7. 0:19between 800 and 1000 degrees centigrade
8. 0:22and a devastated sways of countryside
9. 0:25destroying entire villages
10. 0:27and eating up everything in its path
11. 0:30on the 8th of june 1972 nine-year-old
12. 0:32kim vig fantasy
13. 0:34was playing with her friends beside an
14. 0:36old temple
15. 0:37suddenly her world erupted in flame the
16. 0:40south vietnamese air force were
17. 0:42targeting communists in the area and by
18. 0:44mistake
19. 0:45they were bombing a south vietnamese
20. 0:47village
21. 0:48far along the road a photographer just
22. 0:50happened to be filming the scene
23. 0:52and suddenly he was aware of children
24. 0:54running towards him
25. 0:55kim is the girl in the center of this
26. 0:58group
27. 0:58her clothing had been completely burned
28. 1:00off and the
29. 1:01napalm had stuck to her back and
30. 1:03shoulder and arm
31. 1:05as she ran along the road and she was
32. 1:07screaming too hot
33. 1:08too hot eventually a soldier gave her
34. 1:10cold water to drink
35. 1:11and poured water over her burning body
36. 1:14and she passed out
37. 1:15with pain and shock this photograph came
38. 1:18to epitomize
39. 1:20the senseless suffering of the vietnam
40. 1:22war it won the news photograph of the
41. 1:24year 1973
42. 1:26and it was flashed all around the world
43. 1:29after the americans left vietnam the
44. 1:32communists used kim's experience
45. 1:34for propaganda reasons despite countless
46. 1:37operations
47. 1:38kim was now living daily with physical
48. 1:42pain
49. 1:42and psychological trauma she had been
50. 1:45raised in the cow die religion
51. 1:47which taught that there were many gods
52. 1:49and many different ways
53. 1:51to forgiveness and to bliss and
54. 1:52happiness but this religion brought her
55. 1:55no relief whatsoever
56. 1:56in 1982 things came to her head as she
57. 1:59contemplated ending her life
58. 2:01feeling that at least if she committed
59. 2:03suicide her suffering would be over
60. 2:05she went to saigon library and decided
61. 2:08to
62. 2:09look into other religions she took out
63. 2:11books on different religions
64. 2:13and eventually as she lived through them
65. 2:15she came on a new testament
66. 2:17started to read the gospels this was
67. 2:19something different immediately she was
68. 2:21struck
69. 2:21with the fact that jesus made some
70. 2:24amazing claims he claimed to be the son
71. 2:26of god
72. 2:26he claimed to be the only way to
73. 2:28forgiveness the only way to the father
74. 2:30and she'd never ever heard that before
75. 2:33and then she read
76. 2:34about the sufferings of christ and she
77. 2:36could identify with suffering and pain
78. 2:38and she was amazed to think that if this
79. 2:40man claimed to be the son of god
80. 2:42and yet he died on the cross and she
81. 2:44didn't fully understand it but
82. 2:46it made such an impression upon her she
83. 2:49decided to find out more
84. 2:50eventually on christmas eve in 1982
85. 2:54she was sitting in a church in saigon
86. 2:56listening
87. 2:57to the gospel message the pastor was
88. 3:00talking about the gift
89. 3:01of the lord jesus christ how that god
90. 3:03gave his son
91. 3:05and the peace and the blessings and the
92. 3:07forgiveness
93. 3:08that are experienced when someone
94. 3:10accepts the lord jesus as the savior
95. 3:13as she listened kim said i knew
96. 3:15something was shifting inside me
97. 3:17i wanted this jesus she was desperate
98. 3:20for peace
99. 3:21and for forgiveness and she realized as
100. 3:24she listened that
101. 3:25jesus christ sufferings on the cross had
102. 3:27been for her sins
103. 3:28to give her eternal life and at the end
104. 3:31of the service
105. 3:32she very definitely accepted the lord
106. 3:34jesus as her savior
107. 3:36and her lord well she experienced a pace
108. 3:39that she'd never
109. 3:40known before her life was changed the
110. 3:43resentment and bitterness and anger that
111. 3:46had been in her heart
112. 3:47was gone she said that her hate list
113. 3:50became
114. 3:51her prayer list and she found that she
115. 3:54had been forgiven herself and she could
116. 3:56forgive those who
117. 3:57inflicted such suffering upon her well
118. 4:00eventually
119. 4:01she and her husband defected to canada
120. 4:04she set up a foundation
121. 4:05to help and support children who had
122. 4:07been traumatized by
123. 4:09warfare and just last year she was
124. 4:12awarded the dresden peace
125. 4:13award by the duke of kent her efforts to
126. 4:16bring
127. 4:17peace and to bring healing to
128. 4:19traumatized lives
129. 4:20have been recognized across the world
130. 4:23she said there is nothing greater or
131. 4:25more powerful
132. 4:26than the love of the savior she used to
133. 4:28hate this photograph
134. 4:29because it reminded her of her suffering
135. 4:32and her pain
136. 4:33she says i thank god for this picture
137. 4:35these
138. 4:36bones led me to christ thank you for
139. 4:40watching
140. 4:45[Music]
141. 4:53you