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Nurse in V-J Day kiss photo reunites with Navy
msnbc ^
| 11/10/2008
| ap
Posted on 11/10/2008 8:43:07 PM PST by Nachum
NEW YORK - A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade.
Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse's uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of "South Pacific" and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the actors in their Navy whites.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alfredeisenstaedt; edithshain; georgemendonsa; glennmcduffie; kiss; nurse; photo; vjday
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posted on
11/10/2008 8:43:08 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
She is an impostor it was really my mom
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posted on
11/10/2008 8:45:27 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Honkeys for Mc Cain Palin)
To: Nachum
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posted on
11/10/2008 8:45:51 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
To: Nachum; glock rocks; SouthTexas; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; blackie
Flash Back ! I was 12 years old in 1945...
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posted on
11/10/2008 8:57:17 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Nachum
Nowdays, NOW would be screaming “Sexual Assault!”
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posted on
11/10/2008 9:03:42 PM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Nachum
nowadays, that photo would be on the cover of a sexual assault manual for the Navy. Progress.
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posted on
11/10/2008 9:05:12 PM PST
by
jz638
To: al baby
I read that the picture was posed by the photographer.
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posted on
11/10/2008 9:10:24 PM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Gondring
Nowdays, NOW would be screaming “Sexual Assault!”Only if it was a man kissing her.
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posted on
11/10/2008 9:29:40 PM PST
by
fso301
To: tubebender
Flash Back ! I was 12 years old in 1945...I wasn't yet. ;)
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posted on
11/11/2008 5:55:32 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
To: Jo Nuvark
Thats what my mom told me too
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posted on
11/11/2008 6:16:33 AM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Honkeys for Mc Cain Palin)
To: tubebender
I was 14, turned 15 on October 26, 1945.
I remember it well! ;)
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:50:50 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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