We recently published a long story about the photo «Napalm in Vietnam» which caused a huge resonance during the Vietnam War. The photo shows a group of people, including a 9-year-old girl named Kim Fuq, fleeing a North Vietnamese-occupied town. A South Vietnamese Air Force pilot mistakenly mistaken civilians for soldiers and attacked them with napalm bombs. Not everyone managed to escape the shelling, and those who survived received severe burns. So it was with Kim Fook, who, in pain and despair, took off her burning clothes on the go.

The amazing thing about this picture is the resonance it caused. The author of the photo, Nick Ut, passed it on to his American leadership, but they hesitated for a long time about its publication. Eventually, a cropped version of the photo – with removed photojournalists on the right – was posted on the front page of the New York Times and a myriad of other publications the following day.

According to historians, because the frame caused a great stir in the world, it became the last emotional “drop" that outweighed the scales in favor of ending hostilities in Vietnam. The topic, which was kept silent, did not leave the minds of many people for a long time. American researchers of social culture Robert Harriman and John Louis Lukaits wrote that the photo shows “a picture that should not be shown, about an event that should not be." They believed that pain was the main thing in this photo and that in general “the frame projects the suffering of a little girl all over the world." Perhaps that is why photography has had such a huge impact on future events.

That is why we are resuming data collection from you, fellow physicians. We ask you to send us your photos and stories that happened to you during this cynical war. We will make every effort to disseminate this information to the media. Maybe your story will change the course of the war, like the photo from Vietnam. We hope that in this way we will contribute to our future victory. Send your stories and photos here: