BS: Obit - Times Square Nurse - WW2 photo

Subject: Obit: 'THE KISS' Woman dies at 91....
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 11:16 PM

Edith Shain, aged 91, thought to be the "anonymous" women in "The Kiss" piture taken after World War II...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Obit - Time Square Nurse - WW2 photo
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 03:46 PM

Here are some speculations regarding the identities of the famous kissing nurse and sailor:

http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=VJday_Times_Square_Kiss

Subject: RE: BS: Obit - Time Square Nurse - WW2 photo
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 10:42 AM

And another WW2 vet passes.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit - Time Square Nurse - WW2 photo
From: Wesley S
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 10:16 AM

And according to CNN the sailor in the photo is still alive.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit - Time Square Nurse - WW2 photo
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 10:02 AM

Nice story Wesley.......That is one of the iconic photographs of WW II and the entire 20th Century and I never knew the history of it. Seems she had a wonderful life.................

Spaw

Subject: BS: Obit - Time Square Nurse - WW2 photo
From: Wesley S
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 09:36 AM

Story and photo here

From the LA Times


Edith Shain dies at 91; WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo

She was a married, part-time nurse when she joined the jubilant crowd celebrating V-J Day and was kissed by a young sailor. The photo by Life magazine's Alfred Eisenstaedt was seen by millions.

It's one of the most iconic images to emerge from World War II.

Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of an anonymous young sailor in a dark-blue uniform dipping a white-uniformed nurse backward while giving her a long kiss in the middle of Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, symbolized the euphoria surrounding the news that the Japanese had surrendered and the war was finally over.

Edith Shain, a retired Los Angeles elementary school teacher who claimed to be the mystery nurse in the photo seen by millions around the world, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, said her son, Michael. She was 91.