#mendonsa

Police in Florida are looking for the vandal who painted "#MeToo" on the leg of the nurse in the "Unconditional Surrender" statue.

The statue is modeled after an iconic photo taken in Times Square in 1945, showing a woman dressed in a white uniform being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of World War II.The woman, identified as Greta Friedman, was 21 at the time, and she didn't know the sailor, who has been identified as George Mendonsa.

Looking back on the moment later on, Freidman described a kiss that wasn't consensual. "Suddenly, I was grabbed by a sailor," she told Veterans History Project in 2005. "It wasn't that much of a kiss. It was more of a jubilant act that he didn't have to go back."

The sailor was "very strong," she told the Veterans History Project."He was just holding me tight. I'm not sure about the kiss... It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn't a romantic event. It was just ... 'Thank God, the war is over.'"Mendonsa's recollection is similar. "So we get into Times Square and the war ends and I see the nurse," he

told CNN in 2015

. "I had a few drinks, and it was just plain instinct, I guess. I just grabbed her."On Tuesday morning, police discovered that someone had used red spray paint and wrote the words "#MeToo" on the statue in Sarasota, Florida.

интересно, что всю жизнь шли споры (десятилетия!) между фигурантами на фото (мнимыми и реальными)

мало того было 2 фотки

первую для журнала LIFE сделал Alfred Eisenstaedt и назвал её «V-J Day in Times Square», August 14, 1945

вторую (с идентичным сюжетом) для New York Times сделал Victor Jorgensen, она называется «Kissing the War Goodbye»

среди основных фигурантов этих фото были

Glenn McDuffie / George Mendonsa и Greta Friedman / Edith Shain

1. Feb. 18, 2019 — George Mendonsa, a World War II veteran whose claim of being a sailor kissing a nurse in an iconic image was verified using facial recognition technology, died early Sunday, his daughter said. He was 95

2. Sunday 11 Sep 2016 — The woman pictured sharing a kiss with a sailor in an iconic photograph of people celebrating the end of the Second World War has died aged 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman, who famously kissed George Mendonsa on August 14 1945, died of old age at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia

3. Fri, 14 Mar 2014 — U.S. Navy sailor Glenn Edward McDuffie kisses a nurse in Times Square in an impromptu moment at the close of World War Two, after the surrender of Japan was announced in New York August 14, 1945. A man who claimed to the sailor seen in the iconic photograph kissing a nurse in New York's Times Square to mark the end of World War Two, has died in Texas at the age of 86

4. November 9, 2010 — Edith Shain, who became something of a celebrity decades after World War II, asserting that she was the nurse kissed by a sailor in Life magazine’s memorable photograph of V-J Day in Times Square, died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_Day_in_Times_Square ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/День_Победы_над_Японией_на_Таймс-сквер