Godspeed. RIP
Posted on 09/10/2016 4:47:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died.
Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a Richmond, Virginia, hospital of what he called complications from old age. She was 92.
Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945. She went to Times Square amid reports that the war had ended. That's when she was kissed by George Mendonsa celebrating Japan's surrender.
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Damnit!
I wanted to kiss her too...
RIP
Complications of old age?
I think that is the first time I have ever heard of that.
My Mom was a Sarg when her and the dad, a MSSG hooked up an they had this photo in our hose and explained to us (4 of us) its meaning.
RIP Lady
God bless that generation. God bless the woman who got kissed by all our young men for all the young women who stayed at home! ..... RIP.
I just today got a copy of a clipping from my brother who had gone to a museum somewhere and found an article and picture about two young Marines reunited at the end of the War. One was a young man giving the other a light for his cigarette. The young man having his cigarette lit had been recently liberated from a Japanese POW camp. The other was a young man who had not been in a POW camp, but had been serving with the Marines in the Pacific theater. They were both from the same home town.
The guy lighting the cigarette was my dad.
V.J. Day. Dad was Shore Patrol. Mom was 17 and whooping it up with thousands celebrating downtown. They kissed, got married two weeks later, and drove a Packard from Massachusetts to Oregon to introduce mom to dad’s family. Both gone now. Life is short. Kiss!
:-D What a great story!
I use that as a standard description. Isn't it what most of us die from?
One obituary of my grandfather said that he died from "poor health."
Rest in peace Mrs. Friedman........iconic.
Sailor and nurse who were pictured kissing in celebration of end of second world war are reunited in Times Square 67 years later
Just a few weeks ago some feminazis were saying that this woman felt violated by the kiss. Her body language says otherwise.
May she rest in peace, and no longer be used for feminazi propaganda.
I wonder what the fall out would be today if a sailor grabbed a woman he didn’t know in Times Square and passionately kissed her?
Times change, don’t they?
........to all u jarheads out there notice it was a Sailor getting the woman!
“One obituary of my grandfather said that he died from “poor health.” “
Well, that does rule out meteor strikes and getting hit by a bus.
Today George Mendoza would have been arrested and branded a sex criminal.
Depends on his political party affiliation. If he were a Democrat he could have gone on to be vice president like Biden. If Republican, might have made it to senator a la Bob Packwood, then eventually ostracized by the left after they no longer had any use for him.
During my early misspent years there were several occasions when I nearly succumbed to complications of youth!
My father is 90, he and I talk about that time often now. We lost my mom about 4 years ago. They were married 66 years. Great loss for all here.
They met in the Train Station in DC, arrived same day same time. He could not take his eyes off her. While he was waiting for his convoy to gather, he and my mom saw the sights of DC. She came to DC for a job. When he left he told her he would come back and marry her. She laughed to her girlfriends that night. They wrote during the war. On his way home he contacted my grandfather and had him send her a train ticket. They were married the night she arrived in Texas in my grandparents home. Train was late, preacher came to the house to marry them. She had never seen a single person in his family. She was the daughter my grandmother never had.
No one could have had better parents than I did.
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