Kissing the War Goodbye VJ Day Times Square Decal sticker

a timeless photograph captures a historical moment in US history the American sailor kissing a dental assistant in a nurse's uniform in Times Square celebrating the end of World War two that sailor George Mendonsa died on Sunday he was 95 according to the Providence Journal a family member says he fell and had a seizure it reportedly happened at an assisted living center in Rhode Island the photo was taken on August 14 1945 and published in Life Magazine the woman Greta Zimmer Friedman died in 2016 she was 92 the two did not know each other before what's known now as the kiss that day is still significant it's called VJ Day in Times Square Mendonsa worked on a destroyer during the war he says Friedman resembled nurses who looked after injured sailors