Bhelliom
08-12-2005, 01:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - A kiss is just a kiss - but not this kiss.
The photograph of the exuberant kiss by a sailor on the lips of a surprised nurse in Times Square remains, 60 years later, an iconic image of the day the Second World War ended.
"It was a very long kiss," Edith Shain, who says she is the nurse in the photo, recalled Thursday. "It was like a dance step, the way he laid me over in his arms."
Shain said she closed her eyes and never looked at the sailor.
"I just got lost in the moment," said Shain, now an 87-year-old great-grandmother from Santa Monica, Calif. To Shain's delight, a life-size colour sculpture by Seward Johnson based on the photograph was unveiled Thursday in bustling Times Square. It will be displayed through Monday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/08/12/1170489-ap.html
How sweet
The photograph of the exuberant kiss by a sailor on the lips of a surprised nurse in Times Square remains, 60 years later, an iconic image of the day the Second World War ended.
"It was a very long kiss," Edith Shain, who says she is the nurse in the photo, recalled Thursday. "It was like a dance step, the way he laid me over in his arms."
Shain said she closed her eyes and never looked at the sailor.
"I just got lost in the moment," said Shain, now an 87-year-old great-grandmother from Santa Monica, Calif. To Shain's delight, a life-size colour sculpture by Seward Johnson based on the photograph was unveiled Thursday in bustling Times Square. It will be displayed through Monday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/08/12/1170489-ap.html
How sweet