74. Burning Monk.
Photograph by Malcolm Browne.

The monks name was Thich Quang Duc, and he immolated himself on the 11 June 1963, which means it most likely appeared on the cover of The Sun on the 12th, maybe the 13th. We had the newspaper home delivered, and I always read it over breakfast, but I don't think I was quite prepared for this.
I was 9, and didn't understand the nature of his protest, who he was protesting against, nor what or why, but remember staring at this before leaving for school. Trying to understand it. I thought I saw a dignity, an apparent calmness, as though this tortuous pain was something else, something other, something that need be endured as the cause is just. I may have been wrong, he may have felt those flames with an intensity I cannot even begin to imagine.
Either way, figuring that he knew death would be an inevitable consequence of his actions and perhaps understood as something reasonable.

The car in the background is now featured in some Vietnamese museum, and while I find that a little bizarre, yes, I'd go to see it.

Vietnam War Photo Homecoming
FILE - In this June 11, 1963, file photo, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, sets himself on fire and burns to death at a highway intersection in Saigon, Vietnam. Forty years after the war ended, "Vietnam: The Real War," a collection of 58 photographs taken by the AP opens to the public Friday, June 12, 2015, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne, File)