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Nurse kissed in iconic V-J Day photo dead at 92 - IceWizard - 09-11-2016
As some of you may remember, I just posted her iconic pic on VJ-Day...
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70 years later, the 'Kissing Sailor' tells all. The kiss came after news of Japan's surrender appeared on a billboard Her identity was a mystery for years.
Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, has died, according to her son Joshua Friedman.
Friedman told CNN that his mother died at an assisted living home in Richmond, Virginia. She was 92.
The black-and-white photograph of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of World War II became an enduring image.
"My mom had so many stories and so many experiences; this was just one of many," Friedman said about the iconic photo.
Friedman, then 21 and a dental assistant, was in Times Square when the news of Japan's surrender to the United States
Greta Friedman will be laid to rest with her late husband, Mischa Elliot Friedman, who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
She was believed to be in one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century, the moment Americans learned of a Japanese surrender.
“I did not see him approaching, and before I know it I was in this tight grip,” Friedman said in 2012.
George Mendonsa said he’s the sailor in the photograph that would come to symbolize the end of World War II, and Friedman was the “nurse” in white. (She was actually a dental assistant.)
“It was the moment that you come back from the Pacific, and finally the war ends,” Mendonsa said.
Mendonsa said he didn’t kiss her for long.
As the perfect strangers locked lips, world famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped four pictures in just 10 seconds.
CBS News reunited Mendonsa and Friedman in 2012 at the spot of their kiss for just the second time since that day in 1945.
“The excitement of the war bein’ over, plus I had a few drinks,” Mendonsa said, “so when I saw the nurse I grabbed her, and I kissed her.”
RE: Nurse kissed in iconic V-J Day photo dead at 92 - Pineapplepen - 09-12-2016
(09-11-2016, 12:59 PM)FirePlaces Wrote: I always loved this photo.
Same.
It gives us such hope and excitement for the future and possibilities.