Woman in famous VJ Day 'Kiss' photo dies aged 92

 

RICHMOND: -- The woman kissed by a sailor in an iconic photograph marking the end of World War Two has died aged 92.

 

Greta Zimmer Friedman died of pneumonia at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, her son Joshua Friedman said.

 

Ms Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant when she was grabbed and kissed by George Mendonsa in New York's Times Square on 14 August 1945.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37331850

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2016-09-12

I think this is the photo the article is referring to.  It was iconic.  

 

 

 

Of course this was at a time where there wasn't as much political correctness with heterosexual behavior.    Nowadays, the man might be shamed or arrested in certain countries for sexual misconduct.

 

 

Edited September 11, 201610 yr by 4evermaat

And today, the guy who kissed her in that photo would most likely be arrested on sexual battery charges and put on a lifetime sex offender registry. 

2 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

And today, the guy who kissed her in that photo would most likely be arrested on sexual battery charges and put on a lifetime sex offender registry. 

Not if they were celebrating the end of the greatest world war, victory ever. Here's to the greatest generation.

Thank you. How different all our lives may have been ?

This is in the original article, too.  This current generation really needs to get their asses kicked so they can have something valid to whimper about.  

Although the photo is lauded as a symbol of the joy felt by Americans on the day Japan surrendered to the United States, some people in recent times view the photo, as Time Magazine put it, "as little more than the documentation of a very public sexual assault".

 

Ah! those were the days!!

 

- when grapes were rare,

 

and gropes were plentiful.

 

 

Now - we have gripes!

Edited September 12, 201610 yr by tifino

Life is Good

1 hour ago, Usernames said:

This is in the original article, too.  This current generation really needs to get their asses kicked so they can have something valid to whimper about.  

 

We live in a finding fault society today. Orwellian. 

Love her stockings.

28 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Love her stockings.

 

Indeed. Back when American women still understood the concept of femininity.

3 hours ago, Usernames said:

This is in the original article, too.  This current generation really needs to get their asses kicked so they can have something valid to whimper about.  

 

 

The quote that you highlighted would only be used by unintelligible persons who weren't even born then and have no idea of what those brave men went through.  I thank all the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought so hard to give us the freedom that some people are now trying to destroy and take from us.  May the young ones of today never forget this saying, "Lest We forget."

 

 

Edited September 12, 201610 yr by Si Thea01

Not many blacks in those photos.

 

 

Were they allowed out of their houses back then, or were they stuck making their way back from the frontline?

Edited September 12, 201610 yr by DLang

27 minutes ago, DLang said:

Not many blacks in those photos.

 

 

Were they allowed out of their houses back then, or were they stuck making their way back from the frontline?

 

yeah reminds me from even the early 80's -  a promotional video made for Airforce families, for their upcoming Posting to the locality:

 

  The video, which simply went up, and back down the other side of the main road,

- was only showing from the waist up...

No gutters were shown, as would have negatively lit the town, and it's 'flagon' problems with the aborigines

 

 

Edited September 12, 201610 yr by tifino

Does anyone know if she ever remarked about that kiss.

13 minutes ago, oldsailor35 said:

Does anyone know if she ever remarked about that kiss.

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/archives/2013/03/20/famous-kissers-weigh-in-on-photo-controversy/78537246/

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