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the encomium survey shevardnadze almost half a century ago shows a traumatized young girl suffering from severe burns as a result of an appalling strike in vietnam today chevrons a leading charity that seeks to protect children affected by a war. in appalling girl from the famous photo that exposed the terrifying reality of the vietnam war and the founder of the kim foundation is my guest on
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this edition of the show. the jungle. timeless rock. the vietnam war was in many ways a media friendly conflict even decades later its image is instantly recognizable. in the media recalled accurately tell us what really went down in the impossible. welcome you read from the famous stories and photographs about the violence and the suffering will be. looking back into the bloodshed of the past teaches anything about the future concrete came folks survivor of an appalling strike in the vietnam war an author of the fire wrote a book welcome to the show it is great to have you with us today so i want to start go back and start with a picture that everyone knows this picture depicting you running naked in fear has become the symbol of all the horror and desperation of the vietnam war 47
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years on do you remember what happened on that day this photo was taken. yes actually i was 9 years old when that picture taken in 1972 obviously i remember everything. under that day. as children which is allowed to play in. the temple. and very near the mom shelter and i remember. on june 8 so we. after lunch so we get clay around in. suddenly. jail for the children asked us to run. out of that temple
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so i remember i was one of them of the children so i got in the front of the temple. then i saw the airplane get to was to me so loud and so close and i just stood right there in in the highway one because i thought it got into the highway one and so i remember as a child i just stood there and then i saw everything i saw the fall of bombs. landing like that then i heard the noise of book book book like that and then suddenly the fire was everywhere around me
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and my clothes were burned by the fire and i saw the fire. was over my left arm and they laid laid that and i used my right hands i wet it up then. i still remember my thought at that moment oh my goodness i got burned so i was i would be ugly and people will save me a different way but at that moment i was saw and terrify been i i i didn't see anybody at that moment when i stopped thinking about everything and then i ran out of that fire and then i saw my prothero and my casting and some of the
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soldiers pray there when we kept running and running i remember i ran for a while until i fell so tired to run anymore then i stop then i cried out too hot too hot and i remember one of the soldiers tried to help me he gave me some water to drink and he tried to help be you pour water over me then. i lost consciousness i didn't remember anything else that moment. so your body was severely burned and you barely survived and your boat fire road actually speaks about your path to recovery how long did it take you to bring yourself back together in kenya sorry you're fully healed down. wow it's
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a long journey. absolutely. i stay in the hospital for 14 months in i went through 160 pray sion at that time and the last one in 1804 i went to germany for my last operation in this half and yet a course. day by day i i have to go through with a lot of pain in and trauma in ny me in very low so it's dim not only the scar i have from the napalm and the pain from that one did but my heart was in trouble and. i really really.
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endured a lot. during the time. before i became a teenager and during the time as i was teenager and gettin growing up every day i can use the word just play survivor but is a miracle i i went through all of this. the pain for physical and emotional and everything and right now i have to say to you that my life has a miracle. so in this photograph by a.p. photographer nick it is said to be transformative moment that changed the course of the war how much has it changed your life. for
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this. changed my life for ever is. i care free for to be. the girl no mungo living lay everyone else around the world as a normal child but now i was different the difference is. my body. seemed to me lie i had. every time i look at my scars i was so scared because it's so utterly and in you know. living in in the. you know where i come from the weather hot and hotter so with the burn that i endure
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a lot of pain so i lost every. what i had at a child's play my childhood my everything that. after the war we had nothing left. but suffering yeah and saw but one thing i have i had a dream and i make my dream big and i kept my i kept my dream a life because the time i stay in the hospital for a long time as a 14 months in all the doctors and nurses. they will really inspire me where when ever i need them they were there to help me so that is wonderful that i have in me
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inspired up despite of all the cecum tons. but i chose to have a dream a in come home. i'm so thankful that i have family who love me to tears every a body around me to help me i just focus on study. that is how. how my life go on so fat. take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to punk folks founder of they came foundation and a famous girl from the historic vietnam era photo discussing the mark. leave on children stay with us.
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a paradise with some around into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments with often in the way you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to
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ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is all very dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see. strategy will be ready. to sit down and talk. real world will know what.
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and we're back with concrete came from founder of the came validation as a child survived and of. war talk about children affected by armed conflict how did your life. take its course after you recovered i mean you obviously. a very courageous woman who followed the dream established as beautiful organization helps tons of people thought about you as a woman it is a look at you now and you're just so beautiful. did you manage to build a family to did you manage to leave a regular live like any beautiful woman like you would iss i need. a lot of encourage yes and i need a lot of i look back and so thankful that i have
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faith and that faith in jesus is help me to find peace and joy and heal my heart and that is the the really turning point in my life. because the time when i was in high school the time when i got into medicine school and i thought i got my dream but then i lost my dream i couldn't do as i wish. i just see king i seeking the truth the purpose why me why i have to suffer and finally i found the true and i found my purpose i found my answer in.
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with what is a answer for in that i have yeah the end so that i always ask why me. why i have to suffer that much. emotional e goli everything in and that is my brain now i know that god had a plan for that little girl i worry is in vietnam. on the highway one in 1972 i was in the wrong road the wrong place and the wrong time but right now i'm in the right time and the right way the right place i have a chance. to be a life and i have opportunity to give back. to
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2 i i know the purpose for my life now i have a chance to help all the children who are suffering or. war or who are under privilege around the world so i have that compassion i can help them because i understand what they need just like me a little girl and need peace i need joy i need my childhood i need to be love everything that the children need so now that is. my life i can give them hope. every time i met curation who suffer i can tell them you always have hope because like i lay me i went through so much and i have the picture i can show them and i have
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a scar to show them. in my life is so true and so real so make them think yet that little girl can do it so i can do it too that is the answer i want to talk a little bit about you know how photos are used this kind of voters are used for good purposes and bad purposes when this iconic image made you sort of an anti-war symbol for the vietnamese government i haven't heard that you were prevented from going to school you simply had no time for it because you were always being interviewed and he had to go to events and show up to this official and or that official then do you think. you were used as a propaganda tool did you feel that way or to or maybe later on analyzing your role
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. in a year that is really true i didn't live that pitcher. at that time because that really the more that pitcher get famous the world is cast my private life and i didn't like it at all but you know everyone have a choice to make and i make my decision that i am seeking freedom because i had no choice then but now i am canadian i have. freedom i have a choice so i can lay fs many years that picture same way that picture controlled me but now i have the choice i have a desire and. i want to.
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you know i will every time i look that picture and i since i have a baby my 1st child thomas i hold that i hold my baby and i look at that picture my pitcher i just is a really at that moment i realized that as a mother how can i see my children suffer like that little girl. and i wanted to protect them not only just my baby but the children around the world and saw the moment that picture it was really big impact it touched my heart and then the same time i have freedom and then i can make my choice to go back to work with that picture
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and i can see that that picture if i realize that the picture is a powerful gift for me as a mother to do something my best to to protect the children around the world and for me that is a wonderful and i'm so thankful for for for that pitch is really empowered in my life you you you've mentioned during this talk of ours that back then you know you hated everyone who had cost you so much suffering i remember . a read it somewhere a day in 99 a 6 you were approached by a united states veteran who said he courted database south vietnamese airstrike which you were caught in and apologized to you know he later admitted that he had nothing to do with this attack and his confession was driven by emotion do you
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believe the united states o.s.u. and the vietnamese apology for what happened. for me for me the scenes i working on my life i learned about forgiveness and the forgiveness not just at the moment on that day. but i contineu to learn as you know forgiveness every single day practicing and for me is this i never let anything from outside that affected my heart i thought remain peace and joy because i learned that the hard way that happen you know saw. the war and the people
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in i couldn't control what they are doing or what they are talking about me or the system tons i can not control the cecum dunces but i can't control. how far so i think that is more happen and make everybody suffer but for me i do my best i don't thing anybody of me. but i i ope people because the love that is the love i can. chained. to the place. much better place to live and for me i focus on that yes you are doing fund raising for organizations that seek to protect children affected by wars i heard that n.g.o.s
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often get to hear from donors that while the sources are limited even strained so want to pick the most urgent causes this i guess makes them compete for funds in a weird way where the more who are state talk about more money they could get. your foundation ever run across an organization that would try to blow some issues out of proportion to get more funding no. not at all my foundation is not big enough to do that kind of fundraising my foundation to focus on very we have a mission we focus on children who are victims of war for example we view the school. we know that education is
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a very important for children and we be able we are a partnership with the foundation we build the hospital and we help often is children. in properly distin i am partnership with the library for children other nice ation and we want to be you. the library for children in the plays that they drop the bomb and kill the children i want to honor that. and that is one of my dream. came folks thank you very much for this interview thank you for your extraordinary courage and. forced to love regardless of anything or
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talking to pun taking fuk the famous the pong girl author of the fire wrote a book and the founder of the came foundation discussing the scars that are in conflict slave and children caught up in the fray that's it for this edition of sophie and co i'll see you next time. you know 2 good 2017 the german newspaper developed published an article claiming that the european union the last 30000000000 euros as
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away and say we decided to treat a stone host to a very special farewell party. we walked along and interesting path of the day but this time to go back to the punchline and thanks for putting on sr good body. with. the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my then singing quantize in moscow. my dancing. on ice. well actually we nailed it literally. is an officer.
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