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• ‟ Those bombs have brought me immeasurable pain. Even now, some 40 years later, I am still receiving treatment for burns that cover my arms, back, and neck. The emotional and spiritual pain was even harder to endure.

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• ‟ I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.

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• ‟ I was as alone as a person can be. I could not turn to a friend, for nobody wished to befriend me. I was toxic, and everyone knew it. To be near me was to be near hardship. Wise people stayed far away. I was alone, atop a mountain of rage. Why was I made to wear these awful scars?

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• ‟ My name is Kim Phuc, though you likely know me by another name. It is one I never asked for, a name I have spent a lifetime trying to escape: 'Napalm Girl.'

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• ‟ Behind that picture of me, thousands and thousands of people, they suffered - more than me. They died. They lost parts of their bodies. Their whole lives were destroyed, and nobody took that picture.

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• ‟ I remember June 8, 1972. I saw the airplane. And it's so loud, so close to me. Suddenly, the fire everywhere around me. The fire burned off my clothes. And I saw my arm got burned with the fire. I thought, oh, my goodness, I get burned. People will see me different way.

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• ‟ I forgive everyone who caused my suffering, even the pilot, commander, people controlling me.

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• ‟ You will remember me as a little child in another time, during another war, and involving another airplane.

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• ‟ That little girl became me now. I have accepted it and I'm thankful that my picture worked for good.

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• ‟ I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go.

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• ‟ I have two boys, so I don't want any more child to suffer like me.

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• ‟ I love my scars. It reminds me where I come from.

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• ‟ My parents gave me life, but the doctors gave me life again.

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• ‟ People can learn the tragedy of war from me.

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• ‟ Through my experiences, I was living with anger and hatred, which was a really bad thing for me. Then I learned how to forgive, and it freed me from hatred and helped me a lot.

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