I read a magazine long time ago and there was an article about the most famous kisses .I couldnt forget this pic at all.It was VJ Day 1945 at the Times Square, New York.What was so special about this kiss??? The sailor and the nurse in that pic never knew each other.They were complete Strangers.It was photographed by Alfred EisenStaedt on 14th Auguat 1945 or the Victory over Japan day. He was photographing the rapidly changing events during the V-J celebration when suddenly he saw a sailor running along the street grabbing every girl at sight young or old and kissing them in the same way...Alred could tok many pics but none of them satisfied him. And then he noticed this Nurse wearing a white uniformed and concentrated on her and just as he hoped the sailor came and bent her and kissed her. Alfred said the dress colour made the photograph special-The black and white combination.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Celebratory Kiss!!!
Years later the girl in that pic came forward to say " I let him kiss me cause he had been in war and fought it for me"
Neither the girl nor Alfred had time to ask who that sailor was? Both were lost in the moment that was like a dance step for that girl and an ultimate moment of celebration for the photograper.
Since 2005, every year on VJ day, the Times Square Alliance invites couples or strangers to come make out in the same spot as this nameless pair did just 63 years ago.
PS: Now I think what would have happened if a similar thing would have happened in india after the recent mumbai terror strike ended?
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dude there is more to the story..
I heard a couple f years ago tht the man n woman are found..
or something like it..
there was a pic of the duo kissing at the same place again...
both octogenarian at the time...
hmmm....
well yes...years later many people had came forward to claim as the kissers but i am not sure who were the real ones....
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