A wartime icon dies

Edith Shain is kissed by an American sailor while thousands jam Times Square, New York, to celebrate victory over Japan in 1945. Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Nurse being kissed in iconic wartime picture dies, aged 91 Edith Shain was photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square in 1945 being kissed […]

V.E. Day

Publius BigGovernment.com 5/8/2010

Today, in 1945, combat in Europe ended. World War II was almost over.

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