Posted on 01/20/2020 10:48:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Well, this is one of the more incredible testimonies you will ever see.
Phan Thi Kim Phúc is an unfamiliar name in our culture today. Most of us, however, have seen the horrific images of the “Napalm Girl” running in panic, naked, down the street shortly after a bomb landed nearby and burned the clothes right off her body.
A photographer snapped a picture that would forever change her life — even more so than the injuries she sustained.
Watch her powerful testimony. Continue reading below the video.
VIDEO AT LINK
She was so traumatized by not only the attack, which she recalls in vivid detail. “I saw the airplane and it’s so loud, so close to me. Suddenly, the fire everywhere around me. The fire burned off my clothes, and I saw my arm burned with the fire.” she explained.
With the picture of her naked now everwhere, she became ashamed, as not only was the picture public but the video of her running down the street naked as well, badly burned.
By 1982, she was suicidal, because, as she says, “I thought after I die, no more suffering, no more pain.”
At her most desperate hour, as she contemplated the horrific decision of taking her own life, God had other plans. She “found” the New Testament in the library in Saigon.
By Christmas of that year, she had become a Christian.
“Since I’ve had faith, my enemies list became my prayer list,” she said, before tearfully recalling realizing that she had “love” inside of her instead of wallowing hatred. “Forgiveness set my heart free. I forgive everyone who caused my suffering. Even the pilot, commander, people controlling me,” she said.
She also discussed having children, and when they were old enough, sharing the story with them. Her son’s reaction was incredibly sweet. “Mommy, hurt here?” he said, before kissing her scars.
An interviewer asks what she thinks of now when she sees the picture taken on that horrific day in Vietnam. “Now, I can see the picture. I am so thankful.”
God, who is sovereign over all things, has a purpose in all things — even the bad, even the horrible. Praise Him for leading this brave woman to the Bible in her hour of need, and for using her story as a searing testimony on the power of forgiveness and faith!
Just...wow. That brought tears to my eyes.
That’s about as powerful of 4 minute video as you’ll ever see.
Thanks for posting.
She and her husband defected to Canada, where they had two children and became Canadian citizens.
Wonderful inspiring story! This touched me:
“Since I’ve had faith, my enemies list became my prayer list,”
Forgiveness is a great healer, something I have had trouble with in the past.
Praise the Lord!
I recall the pic. Long Island Newsday put it, un edited, on the front cover. She looked to be in agony.
She found the New Testament in a Library in a Communist country - probably easier to find there than any public school or many public libraries in the USA.
At least the Christians aren't fed to the lions anymore. The Romans knew how to torture and kill, didn't they?
To #7; Sadly true and in Canada too.
Over 1,000,000 dead, about 58,000 of them Americans and most of the rest of them Vietnamese. And at least 3x that many wounded --- even now, 50 years later, the numbers are impossible to pin down. Visit your local VA hospital (I do from time to time) to see the body count added to every day. The numbers become like smoke, hard to define, meaningless.
So many stories.
And then one story that just makes you shake your head.
It was all based on a lie, called the Tonkin Gulf Incident, so LBJ could show what a great CIC and military strategist he was................
I know.
I didn’t know how young you are. Most people born since Vietnam War ended view it as ancient history...................
I am 68.
OK, youngster. :o)
Thanks for the post. What a wonderful story. I always wondered what happened to her.
At the link there is also a great story about the photographer.
I’ll be joining you this year.
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