From the New York Times today:
A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday.
The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. history and became an iconic image marking the end of the war after being published in Life magazine.
The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to the photographer saying that she was the woman in the picture taken on Aug. 14 at a time when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York City.
I met Edith two years ago at an event on the Queen Mary which was commemorating the end of WWII. She was tiny and funny. We hit it off because she had been a nurse, but she also went on to teach kindergarten.
I had been invited because of my book "Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach" and we talked about what was going on when the war ended. She said -- "everyone who lived then can tell you exactly where they were when we got the news the war was finally over."
