I found this picture on Wikipedia; I think it is the one Pomtzu meant. In the article accompanying the picture I learned some things I had not known. The photographer helped get the girl to a hospital for care for her burns. She survived and went to Cuba for college studies. She met her husband there and while they were traveling to Moscow on their honeymoon, they deplaned in Newfoundland and requested asylum in Canada. She is now a Canadian citizen. I don't know a lot about the Vietnam War, but I have recollections of seeing this picture as a child and even as a high school student, but not really understanding it (What is burning? Why are the children running? Why are the children crying? Where are the child's clothes? Why aren't the soldiers helping them? etc.).


photo by Vietnamese photographer Nick Út