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The Long Journey of Courage

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Nick Ut Photojournalism

Photographs by Nick Ut from the Vietnam War (left and right groupings)

Nick Ut won a Pulitzer Prize for his documentation of the Vietnam War, specifically his famous photograph of a naked girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running away from a napalm attack. Today Kim Phuc is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations and a peace activist. She is pictured in the center color image above with her child. Other images describe the exodus of Vietnamese refugees. In 1954, Vietnamese citizens had 300 days to evacuate from North to South Vietnam. They were assisted by the French government and the Allied Americans to move to the Republic of South Vietnam by ships and airplanes. Many of the refugees from North Vietnam resettled in Central Vietnam.

Pictured center, is a photograph of a statue at Freedom Park, in the city of Westminster, honoring Americans and Vietnamese soldiers for their mutual support during Vietnam War.

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