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{{quote|Made almost 70 years ago, it remains one of the most famous photographs—perhaps the most famous photograph—of the 20th century: a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day in August 1945.
That simple, straightforward description of the scene, however, hardly begins to capture not only the spontaneity, energy and exuberance shining from Alfred Eisentaedt's photograph, but the significance of the picture as a kind of cultural artifact. "V-J Day in Times Square" is not merely the one image that captures what it felt like in America when it was announced, after a half-decade of conflict, that Japan had surrendered and that the War in the Pacific—and thus the Second World War itself—was finally over. Instead, for countless people, Eisentaedt's photograph captures at least part of what the people experience when war, any war, is ended.
(It's worth noting that many people view the photo as little more than the documentation of a very public sexual assault, and not something to be celebrated.)
|Ben Cosgrove|''LIFE Magazine'', "[https://time.com/3517476/v-j-day-1945-a-nation-lets-loose/ V-J Day, 1945: A Nation Lets Loose]", August 1, 2014}}
The famous kiss an ecstatic sailor plants on a very surprised nurse he just grabbed off the street for the express purpose of kissing (see page image) when the end of [[World War
Taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and originally appearing in
See [[Foot Popping]] for what that nurse was doing with her right leg.
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* ''[[Justice League of America]]'': Ice, the former love of Guy Gardner's life, was resurrected after years of being deceased during an affair between the Birds of Prey and the Secret Six. In the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, the two ex-lovers met once again in Times Square and shared a single long and passionate [http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/7/74/Guy_Ice_together_again.jpg kiss].
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