Posted on 09/11/2016 4:51:09 PM PDT by Morgana
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.
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Leave it to TIME Magazine to call this “sexual exploitation” or “Harassment”...
RIP ma’am.
This dear lady dies of pneumonia....
I wasn't around, as I said, and if the Japanese homeland invasion had gone ahead as it would have without the Bomb, I likely wouldn't have been born. (Father was in the 6th Marine Division.)
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