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It's been 50 years. I am not 'napalm girl' any more
Surviving people in war photographs, especially the children, must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human.
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Photographer Nick Ut holding a copy of his 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, Napalm Girl, depicting Ms Kim Phuc Phan Thi (left).
PHOTO: AFP
Kim Phuc Phan Thi
(NYTIMES) - I grew up in the small village of Trang Bang in South Vietnam. My mother said I laughed a lot as a young girl. We led a simple life with an abundance of food, since my family had a farm and my mum ran the best restaurant in town.
I remember loving school and playing with my cousins and the other children in our village, jumping rope, running and chasing one another joyfully.
