News Forum - 50 years today – anniversary of an iconic photo

[Thaiger]

It’s June 8, 1972 and bombs come raining from the sky in a village called Trang Bang, just 50 kilometres northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (then it was called Saigon). 50 years ago, today, a photo was snapped featuring a 9 year old called Phan Thi Kim Phuc. The photo became not only an indelible image representing the worst of the Vietnam War (called Kháng chiến chống Mỹ – the “Resistance war against the United States” – in Vietnam). Indeed, the photo is one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. The photo was taken by Associated Press contract […]

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[anarchofarmer]

I don't think it necessarily depicted the worst of the Vietnam war, merely one instance of the suffering of a civilian collateral result of the arrogant indiscriminate use of heavy weaponry - much like Russia in Ukraine today - used consistently sine in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan etc. Such evidence is always ignored by those ordering the conflicts! There's no profit in bleeding hearts!

[Thaidup]

I watched an interview of her as an older woman living in the USA, was years ago,can't remember what TV station, She grew to be a lovely human being after all of that.