Remembering the past
Photographs show people what happened in the past, including things they might not want to see or remember. Just like a photograph taken at the time of the Vietnam War in 1972.
Kim Phuc was a young girl at the time a photograph of her was taken. She was running on the road along with other Vietnamese children. However, she was running in pain and with her clothes burned off because of the fire. She went through a lot of operations to repair the burns she had on her body. In an interview, she described how terrible the war was for children, which could be seen on her face in the photograph.
There were a lot of world wars in the 20th century. The century was even called by a Japanese journalist “36, 000 days of suffering.” Kim Phuc’s photograph is one of the photos where people could find a sign of hope. After what happened to her, she would like people to learn from it and realize that no one should experience the pain of war in the future.