The sailor of the historic kiss is dead | Chronic

The celebrations of the end of the Second World War in the United States are described in a historical photo. The picture was captured in New York, in the middle of the crowd. After much mystery, we knew who were the protagonists of this story, one of whom died last Monday.

The sailor of the iconic photo is George Mendonsa, who died at the age of 95 following a stroke after falling in the asylum in which he lived in Middleton, Rhode Island. However, we will always remember him for the image of the kiss, captured by Alfred Eisenstadtfor Life magazine.

Back in the Yankees territory after participating in the war, Mendonsa crossed a street in Times Square until she met a woman dressed in a white nurse uniform and kisses her in the middle of the street. "Suddenly, I saw someone take something white, I turned around and clicked when the sailor kissed the nurse." If she had been dressed in black, I would never have taken the picture ", said the photographer.

The gratitude

For many years, the identity of the casual protagonists was unknown, until facial recognition technology allowed to know that it was about Mendonsa, which had been embedded in the Pacific Ocean during the war.

"It was time, you were coming back from the Pacific and finally the war was over, the emotion added to some drinks … So when I saw the nurse, I got it taken away and kissed her ", he said in an interview in 2012.

The nurse that she surprised was Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental badistant who expressed a few years ago: "It was not my choice to be kissed." The boy came and m "kissed me". Friedman died in 2016, at the age of 92.