Kim Phuc Phan Thai Photo-A 9-year-old girl, naked and in obvious pain, runs through a street after suffering napalm burns over much of her body.
Kim Phuc Phan Thai, is now 46 and lives in Canada. She spoke of her ordeal recently to the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors to offer a message of hope for burn victims, HealthDay reports.
“Sixty-five percent of my body got burned,” she tells HealthDay in an interview published today.
The third-degree burns left her face untouched but sheared off every layer of skin on her back and left arm, leaving a legacy of permanent scars and recurring pain.
Phuc says her face was untouched by the napalm, but the third degree burns sheared the skin from her back and left arm, leaving permanent scars and recurring pain.
Phuc says she spent 14 months in a burn unit and underwent 17 operations.
“I should be dead,” Phuc tells HealthDay.
“But I was spared,” she says. “So now I think, ‘I cannot change something that happened to me already. But I can change the meaning.’”
Associated Press photographer Nick Ut won a Pulitzer prize for the photo.
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