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as children which is allowed to play in. the temple. and very near the bomb shelter and i remember. on june 8th so we. after lunch so we get clay around in. suddenly. jail for the children asked us to run. out of that temple so i remember i was one of them of the children saw 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
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highway one because i did 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 and my clothes were burned by the fire and i saw the fire. was over my left arm and in lady lake that and i used my right hands i wet it up in. i still remember my thought at that moment oh my goodness i got burned so
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i was i would be ugly and people will save me a different way but at that moment i was saw scared and terrify the in 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 protheroe and my casting and some of the soldiers drive there when we kept running and running in 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
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and he tried to help be he 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. is 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
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in this half and yet the 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. endured a lot. during the time. before i became a teenager and during that time as i was to nature and get in growing up every day i can use the word just play survivor but is the miracle
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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 is 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 that changed your life. is. changed my life for ever is. i to free for to be. the girl nor 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
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i had. every time i look at my scars i was so scared because it is so ugly and when you know. living in in the. you know where i come from the weather hot and hotter so with the burn that i endure a lot of pain so i lost every. what i had at a child by my childhood my everything that. after the war we had nothing left. but suffering. and saw but one thing i have i had
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a dream and i make my dream big and i kept my i kept my dream alive 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 when when ever i need them they were there to help me so that is wonderful that i have in me 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 to focus on study that is how.
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how my life go on over that. founder of foundation and a famous girl from the historic vietnam era photo. mark. leave on children stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be
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an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. this woman. who was before. much of those who heard it's a preview. we will. move . move. move. move move move. move. those goals. to
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distribute. it's good to go. to start ups to do it to meet until. in the middle of the most dates you look it is with. him stashed not just institutionally they mashed on truck stop the president and please contribute more to. those who have to choose to go to school to snoop or come up when you look at those the girls are with you for this approach to your station which should ensure you should cook door for one who is doing business. in october 2017 the german newspaper developed published an article claiming that
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the european union that last 30000000000 euros as a result of its very anti russian sanctions. particularly affected eastern europe many polish farmers went broke and even committed suicide. sometimes i can't account for as i was of on the get on line with what our plan will put on the ground are not honest. on these it floods the young and behaved often at 5 am on a horse i'm going to get stuck the doesn't on to other kind of a no harm police don't get us and then let's see in the arm in the pool in their finish line swung the smitten off in a position logged on does dance with all the folks nuts wasn't armed.
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officer. told him to get up. to serve begins. sounds it. did for the web in one. context. back to where they were back here again 15 feet apart at this point.
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and we're back with concrete came foop founder of the came validation rule as a child survived an appalling strike in a vietnam war talking about children affected by armed conflicts 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 born about you as a woman and as i look at you now and you're just so beautiful to judith you managed to build a family. did you manage to leave a regular life wake and a beautiful woman like you would. i need. a lot of encourage yes and i need a lot of i look back i'm so thankful and that i have
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faith. and that face 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 they and i lost my dream i couldn't do as i wish. i just see king as seeking the true purpose of why me why i have to suffer and finally i found the true and i found my purpose i found my answer in. with what is a answer for in that i have yeah the end so that i
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always ask why me. why i have to suffer that much. emotional effects goalie 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 to i i know the purpose for my life now i have
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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 children 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 a scar to show them. in my life is so true and so
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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 . in a year that is really true i didn't live that pitcher. at that time
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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. you know i will every time i looked at picture and i since i have the
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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 and i can see that that picture if i realize that the picture is
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a powerful give 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 coordinated this south vietnamese air strike 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 believe the united states owes you and the vietnamese apology for what happened.
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for me for me since i working on my life i learned about forgiveness and the forgiveness not just at the moment on that day. but i continue 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 in i couldn't control what
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they are doing or what they are talking about me or the system tons of us i cannot control the cecum to answer 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 all 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 often get to hear from donors that while the sources
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are limited even strained so want to pick the most urgent causes they say gas 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 a very important for children and we below we are
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a partnership with the foundation we build the hospital and we help often is children. properly. 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 talking to punk they came fuk the famous and pong girl author of the fire wrote
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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 to the 2017 the german newspaper developed published an article claiming that the european union have lost 30000000000 euros as a result of its very anti russian sanctions.
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particularly affected eastern europe many polish farmers went broke and even committed suicide. sometimes i can't account for as i was obama because i'm a poor top level. on these it floods young to have to finance my view on the whole so i'm going to the dolls and on to other kind of a no harm and then let's see in the. definitive one song the smiths. on the dance with all the faults and that's what you call.
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