A young girl made iconic from one moment in time captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph has been honored more than 45 years later with the Dresden prize for her work for peace, reports The Independent.
Commonly known as the Napalm Girl, Kim Phuc has dedicated her life to support UNESCO and children of war.
She was just 9 years old when photographer Nick Ut snapped a photo of her naked and severely burned after being injured by a napalm bomb during the Vietnam War.
Today she is 55.
“I had no idea where I was or what happened to me,” Phuc said to The Guardian. “I woke up and I was in the hospital with so much pain, and then the nurses were around me. I woke up with a terrible fear.”
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