Kim Phuc is an unfading symbol of the horrors of Vietnam, and her photo, where she can be seen screaming as napalm burnt her skin, won the Pulitzer Prize. The photo was at the front page of news the very next day of the Vietnam War that took place 40 years back.

Phuc was just nine years old when the incident took place. Nick Ute, Associated Press photographer, clicked a picture of Phuc and her cousins after the horrifying incident. Kim and her cousins accidentally became victims when a South Vietnamese plane poured napalm on them during the War. Two villagers and two of her cousins died in the bombings.

It has been almost 40 years, but Kim and the man she lovingly calls ‘Uncle Ute’ are still close to each other. He also came for her son’s wedding and they together flew to Miami last month for the next level of their saga. He came all the way from Los Angeles, and Phuc from a place nearby Toronto, where she resides.

Kim is now 52 and she got her first in a sequence of seven laser skin treatments to relieve her body of the aching burn scars that are present on her left arm and her back. The infrequent treatments are done at Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute in Southwest Miami-Dade, and it will take around six to nine months for the skin to heal.