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FAITH
“It was only when the soldiers yelled for us to run that we got really
scared. The airplanes were so loud and so close. We were running
up the road. Most of the children ran first and suddenly there were
bombs and explosions of gasoline. You know what happened. My
clothes were burnt off by the fire and my skin was on fire. Someone
began screaming, Too hot! Too hot!’ That someone was me.”
- KIM PHUC
denly there were bombs and explosions
of gasoline. You know what happened.
My clothes were burnt off by the fire,
and my skin was on fire. Someone be
gan screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’ That
someone was me.”
Ut carried the 9-year-old girl to the
local hospital. She was transferred to the
childrens hospital. Staff there thought
there was no hope of saving her, so they
moved her to the morgue where she re
mained for three days. Her parents even
tually found her and she spent the next
14 months in a burn clinic.
Phuc underwent 17 operations, but
scars remain. She wears long sleeves
most of the time. After spending so
much time surrounded by doctors, Phuc
decided she’d become a doctor, too. She
was accepted into medical school in
Vietnam, but the government had dif
ferent ideas about her future.
“They thought I should be a war
symbol for the state,” Phuc said. “The
officers would pick me up from school
to do a lot of interviews with the for
eign press. They tried to control me, and
eventually they cut short my study. I
wanted to be left alone, but they didn’t
care what I wanted, so I became a victim
all over again.”
She described the experience as a
low point in her life. She cursed the pi
lots. She cursed the propagandists. Phuc
wanted them to suffer.
She began her transformation in
1982, when she found a Bible in a lo
cal library.
“From that moment I knew that God
had a purpose for my life,” she said. “In
1986, the government gave me permis
sion to go to Cuba to study.”
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Phuc learned English while study
ing at the university in Havana. The
Vietnamese government allowed her to
study medicine in the communist na
tion, but remained overly interested in
how she spent her time.
It was there she met her husband,
a fellow student. While on their
honeymoon, the couple defected
to Canada.
“We were allowed to stay in
Canada, but we had no mon
ey, no friends, no knowledge of
the culture,” Phuc said. “We had
nothing but faith.”
Faith was enough. Since mov
ing to the West, Phuc has trans
formed herself into a new symbol
for the power of forgiveness. She’s
become a public speaker and cre
ated the Kim Phuc Foundation, a
charity that helps children affect
ed by war.
Like her physical recovery, her
spiritual recovery took time. It was a
necessary rehabilitation, she said.
“I didn’t just wake up one day and
say, ‘Yes, I forgive,’ but I knew that in or
der to be free I had to learn to forgive,”
she said.
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