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Anyone who who lived through the Vietnam War period remembers the girl in the picture. The picture captures a terrible moment, while also raising a poignant question -- a question Jane Pauley sets out to answer in our Cover Story:A little girl screaming in pain, trying to outrun the napalm burning her body.It s an image seared into our consciousness still -- the horrors of war visited upon an innocent child.Did you ever wonder, what happened to that little girl AP Photographer Nick Ut s pictures of Kim Phuc, who was the nine-year-old child depicted in the photograph taken in the aftermath of a napalm attack in Trang Bang during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The image shocked the world and helped sway public opinion against the Vietnam War. copy; Krista Kennell/ZUMAPRESS Kim Phuc is now 52. It was 43
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Last Updated 1:59 p.m. ET.A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan s dange
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners -- dressed in overalls and covered in soot -- searched Friday through wreckage and bodies scattered over a vast stretch of farmland after a Malaysian Airlines jet flying over eastern Ukraine was shot from the sky, killing 298 people.Separatist rebels who control the area where the plane went down said Friday they had recovered most of the plane s black boxes and were considering what to do with them, as European officials arrived at
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The latest purported audiotape from al Qaeda urges Muslims to fight American troops in Iraq, as U.S. commanders
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AP Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Millikin, 21, from Reno, Nev., drops a mort
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