Fifty years after the photo was taken of her screaming and fleeing an attack during the Vietnam War, Phan Thi was drawn to helping Ukrainians escape war in…
The aircraft was emblazoned with a famous black and white photo of Phan Thi as a nine-year-old child — an image that made her known as the “napalm girl” — showing her naked, screaming and fleeing an attack during the Vietnam War.
She first became involved with last month’s effort after receiving an email from a social justice organization seeking permission to use the famous photograph of her as a child on the outside of their plane.Enrique Pineyro, a pilot and founder of the organization, Solidaire, planned to fly that plane from Warsaw to Regina with more than 200 Ukrainians on board.
“I had to ask my doctor, ‘Don’t do so strong,”‘ said Phan Thi, who was eager to speed the healing time. “Because if she treated me very deep or strong, I’d have to be home for two months.” “I just thought in moment, yes, 50 years ago, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But right now, I’m in the right time and the right place, to be there, to give those people hope.”
“Then when I out of that fire, I saw my brothers, two of them older and younger. Then I saw my two cousins, then some south Vietnamese soldiers. Then we kept running and running and running.” Her relationship with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, has changed over the years. As a young child, Phan Thi said, she hated the image, and as a young woman she resented the publicity it was throwing her way.Article content“I never my baby to suffer like that little girl, like myself when I was a child,” she said.
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