American Icon Passes

“I went from hospital to Times Square that day because the war was over, and where else does a New Yorker go? And this guy grabbed me and we kissed, and then I turned one way and he turned the other.”
-Edith Shain, the nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous “sailor kisses nurse in Times Square” photo that has come to symbolize the end of World War II, has died at the age of 91.