{"id":13435,"date":"2012-06-24T04:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-24T04:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:06:37","slug":"Woman-in-historic-Vietnam-photo-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13435","title":{"rendered":"Woman in historic Vietnam photo honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A woman who came to symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War was honored this month on the 40th anniversary of the photo that made her famous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thi<\/strong> was only a child when she was photographed fleeing a napalm strike on her village in South Vietnam on June 8, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>The image of her running naked down a road captured worldwide attention and later won a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x71ks1\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x71ks1_phan-thi-kim-phuc-vietnam-napalm_news\" target=\"_blank\">Phan Thi Kim Phuc Vietnam Napalm<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/innerpendejo\" target=\"_blank\">innerpendejo<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>She now lives in the Toronto area and looks back at how the iconic photo changed her life. <strong>She shared the stage at a special event with Nick Ut, the award-winning photographer behind the image, and others who helped her survive the conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event&#8217;s organizer says the woman who garnered worldwide fame &#8220;can&#8217;t even describe the emotions&#8221; stirred up by the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She would never have been alive if it wasn&#8217;t for these people,&#8221; says Liesa Cianchino, who is also a close friend of Kim Phuc&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cianchino says the date should always serve as a reminder of the atrocities of war and their impact on children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Phuc and her husband went to Canada in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, <strong>she founded the Kim Foundation International, which provides free medical assistance to children who are victims of war and terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She is also a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6t7Tb6hi-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes you wonder who the real enemy is?<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who came to symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War was honored this month on the 40th 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