Photo courtesy of the Associated Press
Photographs have immortalized tragedies over the past several decades.
Jacqueline Kennedy cradling her husband, the president, soon after he was shot in Dallas in 1963.
Five Marines and a Navy man raising the flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, or an eerily reminiscent scene from just after 9/11, when firefighters hoisted the flag at Ground Zero in New York City in 2011.
Or the firefighter cradling the dying toddler Baylee Almon in the wake of the domestic terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
None is more recognizable, however, than the photo of Kim Phuc, then age 9. She was the naked girl who shed her clothing after South Vietnamese troops mistakenly dropped napalm on civilians near Trang Bang, Viet Nam, in 1972.
Now 49, and a mother of two, she told her story to the Associated Press.
