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World War II: The Kiss No single picture from World War II -- in fact, arguably, no single 20th-century photograph -- is more famous than Alfred Eisenstaedt's "VJ Day in Times Square." In its spontaneity, energy, and abandon, the photograph of a sailor grabbing and kissing a passing nurse as news of Japan's surrender rockets around the globe encapsulates an entire country's response to the war's end. Of course, not everyone ran outside and kissed strangers on the mouth on August 14, 1945 -- but when this photo appeared in LIFE (not on the cover, but as just one of many pictures taken around the country on the great day), countless readers were drawn to the story it told: a man and a woman, both in uniform, both young, in the very heart of America's greatest city, celebrating the end of a long, brutal conflict with that most unwarlike of gestures: a lingering, "Who cares who sees us?" kiss.
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