The strongest generation’s achievements are being destroyed by the weakest generation.
— Overton (@OvertonLive) March 5, 2024
These people in charge of America don’t represent my country anymore and are illegitimate t.co/oTgT5mXmiW
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) March 5, 2024
The Department of Veteran Affairs just banned the V-J Day kiss photo.
"To foster a more trauma-informed environment photographs depicting the V-J Day kiss should be removed from all Veterans facilities." pic.twitter.com/JYBcm8y4cL
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 5, 2024
Who was the WWII kissing bandit.
The sailor featured in the iconic Times Square kissing photo from World War II probably should have grabbed a different woman for his smooch seen around the world.
George Mendonsa, 23, had just come back from the Philippines on leave as a Navy quartermaster and was on a date with Rita Petry, 20, when the pair joined the throngs of thousands flocking to the Crossroads of the World in Manhattan on Aug. 14, 1945, to celebrate V-J, or Victory over Japan, Day.
But as the future husband and wife crossed Seventh Avenue at West 44th Street, Mendonsa spotted Greta Zimmer, 21, in a nurse’s uniform — and remembered nurses pulling hundreds of Americans out of the water after two Japanese kamikazes attacked USS Bunker Hill, killing hundreds.