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Review: 'Fire Road' adds napalm girl's voice to famous photo
ABC News ^ | October 4, 2017 | Jennifer Kay

Posted on 10/04/2017 12:03:40 PM PDT by cdga5for4

For most of her life, Phuc writes in a new memoir, she tried to run away from that moment when she became the Napalm Girl. Throughout "Fire Road," she explains how she came to see her life instead as a journey toward faith and peace. Phuc's survival and the errant bombing of civilians in her village outside Saigon by the South Vietnamese military have been comprehensively explored by journalists in the decades since the war, and in Denise Chong's 1999 book, "The Girl in the Picture," that detailed the war from the Vietnamese perspective. "Fire Road," written with Ashley Wiersma, completes the picture by adding Phuc's own voice to the story.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: napalmgirl; vietnam; vietnamnapalmgirl
Kim Phuc, the "napalm girl" defected from Cuba to Canada about 25 years ago. Fascinating story.
1 posted on 10/04/2017 12:03:41 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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Thankfully her first name wasn’t Kum. That would have been most unfortunate.


2 posted on 10/04/2017 12:06:18 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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Phuc Yu and Phuc Mi, the Asian twin sisters from Austin Powers.


3 posted on 10/04/2017 12:08:52 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Soooo WRONG!...but funny.


4 posted on 10/04/2017 12:17:24 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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5 posted on 10/04/2017 12:23:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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I couldn’t possibly make this sort of terribly stupid jokes at that lady’ expense. if you are young pray to God you don’t have to go through the changes that lady has to endure.


6 posted on 10/04/2017 12:35:33 PM PDT by arthurus
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I couldn’t possibly make this sort of terribly stupid jokes at that lady’ expense.

Thank you......

7 posted on 10/04/2017 12:38:56 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Yep.


8 posted on 10/04/2017 12:47:58 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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9 posted on 10/04/2017 12:55:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: shotgun

LOL! and Alotta Fagina. You know when I first saw that movie, I thought it was all made up then I saw the James Bond movie Goldfinger and the womans names was Pussy Galore LOL! Can you imagine a movie coming out with that today? The heads of the left would explode screaming sexism for the next year.


10 posted on 10/04/2017 2:10:34 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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