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Volume IV, Number 9
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[[FORGIVENESS, HEALING, WAR] 0811
The Long Road To Forgiveness
by Kim Phuc

Kim Phuc is best known as the girl in the famous photo of a Vietnam War napalm-bombing attack near Saigon. Her organization, Kim Foundation International, aids the youngest victims of war. In her own words ….

On June 8, 1972, I ran out from Cao Dai temple in my village, Trang Bang, South Vietnam; I saw an airplane getting lower and then four bombs falling down. I saw fire everywhere around me. Then I saw the fire over my body, especially on my left arm. My clothes had been burned off by fire.

I was 9 years old but I still remember my thoughts at that moment: I would be ugly and people would…