This Will Make You Cry

[Lon]

Four Year Old In Nepal Protecting his 2 1/2 year old sister. I saw this yesterday and I'm still weeping.

 

[hollydolly]

Where's the link to the story Lon?

 

[Lon]

Where's the link to the story Lon?

There is no link and no story. They survived the quake, the picture is the story.

 

[AZ Jim]

Where did you get the picture Lon?

 

[Warrigal]

Four Year Old In Nepal Protecting his 2 1/2 year old sister. I saw this yesterday and I'm still weeping.


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"Of such as these is the Kingdom of Heaven"

:sorrow: If only we could respond as lovingly to the hurting people of this world.

 

[Shalimar]

Heartbreaking, and unbearably beautiful in it's loving purity.

 

[Lon]

Where did you get the picture Lon?

A friend in New Zealand put it on his Facebook

 

[charlotta]

Please try to find out if they have family still living? The picture is so heart breaking. Both are babies.

 

[Ralphy1]

Over seven thousand dead and still counting, they were a few of the lucky ones...

 

[Ameriscot]

Just stumbled across the above photo in a Guardian article. It's a couple of Vietnamese kids in 2007 and is being spread around FB as Nepalese kids.

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...al-children-image-orphanages-donate?CMP=fb_gu

 

[hollydolly]

Yep that's what I suspected Annie which is why I asked for a link to the story..

 

[Ameriscot]

Yep that's what I suspected Annie which is why I asked for a link to the story..

I am suspicious of these things people share on FB without checking on them. People will share pics of missing kids, etc when it was actually a few years ago.

 

[Cookie]

I have heard that it is often the case with magazines such as Time, etc. to use stock photos when reporting news events like disasters, so this is not so uncommon, I suppose.

 

[ndynt]

Just stumbled across the above photo in a Guardian article. It's a couple of Vietnamese kids in 2007 and is being spread around FB as Nepalese kids.

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...al-children-image-orphanages-donate?CMP=fb_gu

Not surprised. That was my first reaction to the picture...they look Vietnamese.

 

[Lon]

I am suspicious of these things people share on FB without checking on them. People will share pics of missing kids, etc when it was actually a few years ago.

Thanks for researching this. It's still a sad picture that brings tears to my eyes.It's been a very effective pic in fund raising for Nepal

 

[ndynt]

Agree..agree, Lon. Very sad. That inocennt chldren should have to suffer. The memory of the 40 year old picture of the "Naplam Girl" still tortures me, after all these years.

 

[Ameriscot]

Thanks for researching this. It's still a sad picture that brings tears to my eyes.It's been a very effective pic in fund raising for Nepal

I just stumbled on it as I get feeds from the Guardian on Facebook. If it helps raise funds that's good, but better to show Nepalese victims.

 

[ndynt]

Agree, Annie. Cannot help but wonder...if the fund raisers were devious enough to choose the most sympathy evoking photo they could find....will the funds go to Nepal?

 

[Ameriscot]

Agree..agree, Lon. Very sad. That inocennt chldren should have to suffer. The memory of the 40 year old picture of the "Naplam Girl" still tortures me, after all these years.

I remember her very well.

 

[Ameriscot]

Agree, Annie. Cannot help but wonder...if the fund raisers were devious enough to choose the most sympathy evoking photo they could find....will the funds go to Nepal?

I don't really have a lot of trust in this type of fund raising or in many charities. Far too much of the donations go to 'administrative costs'.

 

[Shalimar]

Nona, the napalm girl is (as far as I know) happy and well, and settled in Canada. She converted to,Christianity, and uses her misfortune, to spread a message of peace and love. The human spirit is a wonderful thing. Hopefully this news will give you
peace.:love_heart:

 

[AZ Jim]

Here is an update with pix of that now 49 year old girl.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war-turns-40-210339788.html

 

[ndynt]

Nona, the napalm girl is (as far as I know) happy and well, and settled in Canada. She converted to,Christianity, and uses her misfortune, to spread a message of peace and love. The human spirit is a wonderful thing. Hopefully this news will give you
peace.:love_heart:

I have seen her on talk shows. I think what bothers me is not the little girl herself...rather the symbolism of what children have had to endure...in useless wars.

 

[ndynt]

Here is an update with pix of that now 49 year old girl.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war-turns-40-210339788.html

Thank you, Jim. Such a touching and beautiful story. Made me cry.

 

[hollydolly]

Here is an update with pix of that now 49 year old girl.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war-turns-40-210339788.html

Not that it matters Jim..but that article is old..she is now 52 years old and as Shali said very happily married with a family and living in Canada..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc