Answer, my best guess below.
A Vespa scooter with a sticker saying “Stick With DIck in 72 Don’t Switch Dicks in the Middle of a Screw” was parked outside our apartment.
I worked as a photographer at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The Student Union Building nearby was always packed with Vietnam War protestors.
Betsy's Red Cross friend the wife of David Douglas, recently home from serving in the Marines at Khe Sanh. He knew about Life Magazine David Douglas Duncan who arrived just as he was leaving Khe Sanh.
The Terror of War, colloquially known as Napalm Girl,[1] is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops. It became one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War and an indictment of the effects of war on innocent victims in general.[not verified in body]
Nick Ut sold the photo to the Associated Press and was initially credited as the photographer, receiving several awards including World Press Photo of the Year. After the documentary The Stringer (2025) explored the possibility that stringer Nguyễn Thành Nghệ may have taken the photo, both the AP and World Press Photo conducted investigations, both of which were inconclusive as to whether the photo was taken by Ut,[2] Nghệ, or military photographer Huỳnh Công Phúc; the AP continues to credit Ut, while World Press Photo considers the author unknown.
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Further information: Phan Thi Kim Phuc § Vietnam War napalm attack
On 8 June 1972, South Vietnamese forces advanced on Trảng Bàng, which was held by North Vietnamese forces.[3] As a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fled from a Caodai temple to the safety of South Vietnamese–held positions, a pilot of the South Vietnamese Air Force, flying an A-1E Skyraider, mistook the group for enemy soldiers and diverted to drop napalm.[4] According to a contemporaneous report by Fox Butterfield, the bombing burned five civilians and six soldiers,[3] including nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, who tore off her burning clothes. A photographer, initially identified as Nick Ut, captured an image of Phuc[5] and other villagers fleeing the attack.[6] Ut, ITN correspondent Christopher Wain, and South Vietnamese soldiers assisted Phuc, although descriptions vary as to the role of each. According to Denise Chong's The Girl in the Picture, Wain halted Phuc, Ut translated her request for water, and the soldiers doused her with their canteens.[7] Other accounts include Wain or Ut extinguishing her.[8]
By most accounts, Ut then took Phuc and at least one other victim to a hospital in Củ Chi or Saigon.[9] Several days later she was transported to a specialist facility, thanks to parallel efforts by Wain and her father.[10] Phuc sustained third-degree burns or worse over 30 to 35% of her body, including all of her left arm and almost all of her back.[11] Two civilians were killed in the bombing, both of them children of Phuc's aunt Anh, including Phuc's three-year-old "favorite cousin" Danh. Phuc's brother Tam was superficially burned and recovered after a month.[12]
Composition and publication
The black-and-white photo depicts multiple children running toward the photographer. Closest to the photographer, on the extreme left of the image, is a boy, described by Barbie Zelizer as "crying in terror as his open mouth turned downward like a mask of human tragedy". Toward the center of the image, a bit behind him, Phuc runs with her arms stretched out to the side, fully naked, apparently screaming. Toward the right of the frame, slightly farther back, two children run holding each other's hands. Another child and several soldiers make up the middle background.[13]
According to Ut, he had four cameras—a Leica M2, a Leica M3, and two Nikon Fs[14]—and shot eight rolls of film in black-and-white.[15] The M2 was historically credited as the one with which he took the photo.[16] According to the AP's authorship investigation (see below), the photo was more likely taken with a Pentax or Nikon.[14]
Ut and another photographer submitted eight photos at the bureau. One AP editor refused to use the photo of Phuc due to her nudity. Horst Faas, the head of the bureau's photo department, convinced the AP's New York office to make an exception from its normal rules on nudity, but agreed not to send out a close-up of Phuc.[17] The AP titled the photo Accidental Napalm Attack. At Faas's direction, a technician created an airbrushed print to avoid a shadow over Phuc's crotch being misinterpreted as pubic hair,[18] but most publications chose to use the unaltered photo.[19]
The invasion of LA was planned by the EVIL Steven Miller. The video is a perfect description of Steven Miller and his evil plan:
Why Is Stephen Miller Invading LA? | Enemies List
My best guess on the turning point against Trump:
Trump & Joseph Goebbles clone Steven Miller using the US Army & Marines against peaceful protestors could turn most Americans against him if actual bullets kill peaceful protestors. SEE: Kent State Shootings
But hey, Trump Always Chickens Out.
Trump will withdraw his army when Steven Miller's plan doesn’t work.
Sometime in July or August when lots of people are out of work & everything costs more because of the Trump Tariffs, Trump will be extremely unpopular.
Republicans will scramble to decouple with Trump.
Trump only has a few months to lock in his Emperor Trump dynasty plan.
Trump ran for president the second time to steal AND TO KEEP OUT OF PRISON. When he's out of office he can be indicted, convicted & sent to prison.
When Trump is universally disliked worldwide it's hard to know what the madman cornered rat mobster facing dying in prison will do.
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