Second Blog
This photo is showing a little girl and her brother and cousins running for there lives in the middle of the Vietnam war. The photo was taken in 1772 by a photographer named Nick Ut who was working for the Associated Press at the time when he took this famous photo. This young girl is named Kim Phuc and she was only nine years old, she is now 59 and still living today. Throughout her years she have spoken up in many interviews on her traumatic experience doing that time and what she had to endure. The reason for her nudeness is because a Vietnam air shuttle accidently dropped a bomb on there own sight where Kim Phuc and her family was close by. The toxic fumes of the bomb got on her clothes and they immediately started to burn off, which unfortunately it did reach her skin. she was rushed to a safe house where they put her in a ice bath and removed her dead skin. fun fact is that she hated that photo of her naked self, she says it was "embarrassing" to look a...