'Napalm Girl' from iconic Vietnam War image: Phan Thị Kim Phúc | DW News — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's just as a humble to be the
2. 0:05recipient of such a say the
3. 0:09distinguished a word with so much
4. 0:13meaning behind it
5. 0:15Kim Phuc is famous for being the subject
6. 0:17of a photograph a photograph of such
7. 0:21power that it galvanized public opinion
8. 0:24around the world about the war in
9. 0:25Vietnam and helped change the course of
10. 0:28history
11. 0:29I avoid a void totally to look my
12. 0:39picture alone my mouth my eyes my body
13. 0:46it's the worst moment of human being as
14. 0:51a little girl I felt so embarrassed why
15. 0:58I was naked and my brother's mic housing
16. 1:03was closed on
17. 1:06[Music]
18. 1:10I just dude fry there
19. 1:13and I turned my head and I saw four
20. 1:18bombs landing like that fire was
21. 1:22everywhere
22. 1:23and the fire actually burned my clothes
23. 1:28off I was nine you know and I remember I
24. 1:33thought oh my goodness
25. 1:35I got burned so I would be ugly and so
26. 1:39people would see me different way of
27. 1:42course that moment that picture that day
28. 1:46changed my life forever now I know I
29. 1:51have a picture I am NOT in a feeling
30. 1:55embarrassed like before but it's not
31. 2:00much to me until the moment when I have
32. 2:06a child I look at my boy never one the
33. 2:13children suffer like that little go with
34. 2:16me and so from that point is it it
35. 2:20really touched me and that picture
36. 2:23became so powerful gift for me if
37. 2:29everyone can learn to live with love
38. 2:33with hope and forgiveness absolutely we
39. 2:38don't need war at all if that little
40. 2:42girl in that picture can do it so
41. 2:45everyone can do it too
42. 2:50you