A PHOTOGRAPH

Well, an image is said to be worth a thousand words and I think this is totally true, because sometimes the pictures transmit many emotions just by looking at them. When I was a teenager I felt very interested in History, always reading books or watching documentaries related to this discipline and when I looked the pictures of the wars I felt so powerless and sad, seeing what humans could do to harm people affected me so much.

The image that affected me the most was "The girl from Napalm". It was taken in the middle of the Vietnam War in 1972 after an attack by the United States in the small village of Trang Bang, with the aim of leaving the place without supplies.

 

We would never known this type of events if they had not been captured by photographs that will last for the rest of the history and the importance of knowing the events of the past is that now that we have the knowledge we can prevent this type of atrocities to happen again.