Story: The Iconic Little Girl Who Body Was Burned by Napalm in the Vietnam War Is Now a Christian Woman of Great Forgiveness

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The famous photo of a little girl running on the road, her body burned by napalm, helped end the war in Vietnam. They took her to the morgue because they thought she was dead, where her family found her three days later. Her body scarred and with daily pain, she said “my life was like a cup of coffee. Very dark; with hatred, anger, bitterness, sorrow.” Become a Christian, her life became a story of forgiveness and love, even forgiveness for those who dropped the bomb that burned her terribly. She said another time that she was changed by “the picture of Jesus when they put him on the cross and they kill him, so Jesus say, Father, forgive them, they didn’t know what they are doing.” So that picture helps me say the same thing, “and the more I prayed for my enemies, the softer my heart became.”
see www.christianity.ca/page.aspx?pid=12083
 
Kim Phuc quoted in the article:

“Had it not been for the war, I would not value peace.
“Had it not been for pain, I would not know the healing power of love.
“Had it not been for hatred, I would never have learned to forgive.
“Had it not been for imprisonment, I would not value freedom.
“Had it not been for living in want, I would not value everything I have.
“Had it not been for fear, I would not value peace.”
 
Exiled_Child said:
Kim Phuc quoted in the article:

“Had it not been for the war, I would not value peace.
“Had it not been for pain, I would not know the healing power of love.
“Had it not been for hatred, I would never have learned to forgive.
“Had it not been for imprisonment, I would not value freedom.
“Had it not been for living in want, I would not value everything I have.
“Had it not been for fear, I would not value peace.”
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What a beautiful quote.
 
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… She said another time that she was changed by “the picture of Jesus when they put him on the cross and they kill him, so Jesus say, Father, forgive them, they didn’t know what they are doing.” …
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In the famous and haunting photograph, she holds her arms out as if on the cross.
 
For the record, and for those who don’t know, the incident was a case of so-called “friendly fire,” a mistaken attack on South Vietnamese civilians by South Vietnamese Air Force pilots, not by U.S. troops.
 
The fact that the US used napalm and supplied the S. Vietnamese with it, should have every American ashamed.

Jim
 
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