Posted on 03/06/2024 11:12:53 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a strange woman on the streets of New York at the end of World War II.
Secretary Denis McDonough acted hours after a copy of a memo from a VA assistant undersecretary requesting the photo’s removal from all VA health facilities was shared on social media. The memo had said the photo “depicts a non-consensual act” and is inconsistent with the department’s sexual harassment policy.
McDonough on Tuesday tweeted out a copy of the image, which appeared in Life magazine, adding, “Let me be clear: This image is not banned from VA facilities — and we will keep it in VA facilities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yes, sadly. Just like everywhere else.
This is the granddaughter of the nurse in the picture describing a discussion on the picture in a gender studies course that she took. The gender studies professor calls it assault even though the woman in the picture didn't think it was.
She’s jealous
Oh yes the VA admin is full of woke turds.
Getting a job as a medic to help Vets is impossible for a veteran. They don’t want people in there seeing the abuse
This guy whoever he is has nothing better to do with his time than rule out an iconic photo
What is it that is so offensive to him? A heterosexual act? America happy over defeating Hitler and his Nazi regime?
The gender studies teacher wouldn’t exist today if her father hadn’t “sexually assaulted” her mother.
if it were trannies there’d be no issue.
if it were trannies there’d be no issue.
When Creepy Joe does this to a child the Woke applaud...
Sadly this is the example of the demented senior bureaucratic staff these days. If someone nuked that entire city, no one would miss it.
Judging only by your Grandmother’s body language, I would wholeheartedly agree. She looks like she is enjoying the moment, for certain.
All these government extremist need to be terminated..
Purge the Woke
Who precisely was the person responsible for sending out this imbecilic memo?
...The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called “V-J Day in Times Square,” but is known to most simply as “The Kiss.” Mendonsa said that in some photos of the scene, Petry could be seen smiling in the background...
Joshua Friedman said his mother recalled the events happening in an instant.
“It wasn’t that much of a kiss,” Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005. “It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event.”
Both of Friedman’s parents died in the Holocaust, according to Lawrence Verria, co-author of “The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II.”
Friedman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to her late husband, Dr. Misha Friedman.
____________________________________________________________
Neither the “victim” nor his girlfriend cared. “Woke” people certainly have a lot of time on their hands.
Guessing the woke prof failed the granddaughter.
Just one big punch bowl filled with them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.