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(48,121 posts)She isnt sure how long she was standing there; maybe minutes. And then I was grabbed, she says. That man was very strong. I wasnt kissing him. He was kissing me.
Just as suddenly, he let her go. George stumbled off towards the subway, Rita trailing behind, and Greta walked back to her office. George and Rita never discussed the kiss, nor did Greta tell anyone what had happened to her.
Back then, it was just one of those things: Obviously, to do that today its not such a good idea, says Lawrence Verria, co-author of The Kissing Sailor. But in Times Square, 1945, they hear the wars over its not such a bad idea.
None of them knew they had just been photographed by Eisenstaedt, that their picture was about to be published in Life magazine, or that, decades later, multiple men and women would come forward claiming to be that sailor and that nurse.
http://nypost.com/2012/06/17/the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-v-j-day-sailor-and-nurse-smooch/