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"Unconditional Surrender"
This statue ,also known by the names "Embracing Peace" or the "Kissing Sailor" is a sculpture by Artist J. Seward Johnson depicting an iconic, spontaneous embrace and kiss between a U.S. Navy sailor and a woman in a white uniform (a dental assistant, not a nurse) in Times Square on V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day), August 14, 1945, which marked the end of World War II. It is located in Tuna Harbor Park, along the San Diego Bay waterfront, next to the USS Midway Museum
Victory-over-Fire nation day in Caldera square, alternatively titled “(Ozai’s) unconditional surrender”
[ID: digital fanart in tones of red of Zuko and Sokka recreating the pose from a photograph titled “V-J Day in Times Square” that was published in 1945. The pose is also known as “Unconditional Surrender”. Sokka, with his leg in a cast, is dipping Zuko backwards into a kiss. The background behind them is red with shades of lighter red showing silhouettes of trees and war balloons. End ID].
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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.
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Unconditional Surrender - San Diego, California