It is a defining image of the American century, one that expressed the joy of a nation at its moment of greatest triumph: on the day the Japanese surrender was announced, a sailor grabbed a nurse in the middle of Times Square, bent her back and kissed her.
That kiss on V-J Day was captured in at least two photographs — one iconic, one merely famous. And for decades since, there have been debates: Who was the sailor? Who was the nurse? A handful of people have staked claims, and countless stories have attempted to sort them out.
This is not one of those stories.
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