Posted on 09/10/2016 5:45:47 PM PDT by NRx
Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolising the end of the second world war, has died aged 92.
Her son, Joshua Friedman, said she died on Thursday in Virginia after suffering a series of ailments, including pneumonia, NBC News reported.
CBS News said she would be laid to rest with her late husband, Mischa Elliot Friedman, at Arlington national cemetery in Virginia.
Friedman, then a dental assistant on a break, was the woman in one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century, the moment Americans learned of the Japanese surrender on 14 August, 1945.
Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor in a dark uniform kissing Friedman with his arms around heras revellers in New York’s Times Square celebrated the victory over Japan, or V-J Day.
“I did not see him approaching, and before I know it I was in this vice grip,” Friedman told CBS News in 2012. After the embrace, Friedman and the sailor, quartermaster George Mendonsa of Rhode Island, went their separate ways. Eisenstaedt’s photo, “V-J Day in Times Square”, ran the following week in Life magazine.
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Ohhhh, that’s was when America was America.
“George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman — identified as the kissing couple by “The Kissing Sailor,” a book published this year by the U.S. Naval Institute — called the moment an act of unbridled celebration.
“I can’t think of anybody who considered that as an assault,” said Friedman, who exchanges Christmas cards with Mendonsa every year and has appeared with him at several reunion events. “It was a happy event.””
Oh no.
“Happy memories: Rita Mendonsa says she has never been angry that George kissed another woman on their first date - pointing out that she can been seen grinning behind the kissing couple. George and Rita, now married for 66 years, are pictured here at the Rhode Island home”
God Bless Greta and God Bless America...please.
And yet, not more than two weeks ago, some freepers were claiming she was a rape victim in this photo. (I DON’T make things up.)
RIP and what a beautiful and moving photo of a lost America!
She had a good, long run. God Bless America.
The last time we won a war and told them how things were be
and both better off
I remember that.
Sanctimonious ninnies all.
RIP to a gracious lady.
That would be sexual assault today.
It’s a sad comment on the times we live in. But you are right. I was thinking the same thing when I posted this.
We were still doing that in Times Square in the late 1980’s
If I could time travel, I would have been right there, in Times Square, on VE Day.
This lady will live forever through this photo.
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