New York Square: A Celebration of the End of the WarVJ Day - 65 years later.
Under the shadow of a 26 foot statue of the same figures in the famous photo to the left - dozens of couples recreate the famous photo.
Apparently there was more than one nurse wandering around in the streets (quote):
"Gloria Bullard wasn't the nurse in that famous picture, but she was there in the crowd. In the time it took her to walk through Times Square that day, from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue, she was kissed a dozen times by random men.
Bullard, now 84 and living in Winnsboro, S.C., doesn't appear in the iconic Eisenstadt shot, but a second photographer caught her face the exact same moment, shooting the same sailor and nurse from a slightly different angle.
She didn't realize the camera had caught her until years later, when a friend spotted that second image in a newspaper.
"I was in nurse's training school at New York Medical College," Bullard said. "In the picture it looks as though I was standing there, but I was not. I just stopped and turned to look, get a full view of the sailor, and the nurse, and that's when he took the picture."
Sixty-five years to the day later, she remembers that scene as though it were yesterday.
"It kind of chokes me up now," she said. "We, as a nation, we can really get together, and we will survive anything."
Apparently there was more than one nurse wandering around in the streets (quote):
"Gloria Bullard wasn't the nurse in that famous picture, but she was there in the crowd. In the time it took her to walk through Times Square that day, from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue, she was kissed a dozen times by random men.
Bullard, now 84 and living in Winnsboro, S.C., doesn't appear in the iconic Eisenstadt shot, but a second photographer caught her face the exact same moment, shooting the same sailor and nurse from a slightly different angle.
She didn't realize the camera had caught her until years later, when a friend spotted that second image in a newspaper.
"I was in nurse's training school at New York Medical College," Bullard said. "In the picture it looks as though I was standing there, but I was not. I just stopped and turned to look, get a full view of the sailor, and the nurse, and that's when he took the picture."
Sixty-five years to the day later, she remembers that scene as though it were yesterday.
"It kind of chokes me up now," she said. "We, as a nation, we can really get together, and we will survive anything."
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