Nurse kissed in iconic World War II print dies

Washington: Greta Friedman, a lady kissed by a soldier in a iconic design taken in New York city’s Times Square after a Second World War finished in 1945, has died, a media news said.

Her son Joshua Friedman reliable a news to CNN on Saturday observant that his mom died during an assisted vital home in Richmond, Virginia. She was 92. The black-and-white sketch of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a soldier to applaud a finish of a fight became an fast image.

“My mom had so many stories and so many experiences; this was only one of many,” Friedman pronounced about a iconic photo. Friedman, afterwards 21 and a dental assistant, was in Times Square when a news of Japan’s obey to a US was announced on a billboard, imprinting a finish of a war, CNN reported.

The photo, taken by mythological photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life repository a few weeks later. But a identities of a dual people were a mystery. It was not until 1980 when both Friedman and George Mendonsa, a soldier in a photo, were dynamic to be a integrate in a photo, CNN added.

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