Hundreds of couples came to Times Square on 14 August 2010 to reconstruct Alfred Eisenstaedt‘s photograph of a kiss between a sailor and a nurse 1945. There is a statue of the pair near the Square.
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The women in the reconstruction have forgotten that they should have been tugging out their wedgies. They’ll have to go back and do it all again.
Won’t we all.
I dont think she was wedgie tugging, it looks more like she was making sure her skirt was down in the back
There’s a 26-foot tall statue of that kiss, titled “Unconditional Surrender” down here in Sarasota, Florida! You can see a pic of it at the TackyTouristPhotos website:
http://tackytouristphotos.com/2011/09/kiss-of-the-century/
Oops, I just spotted that same statue in the background of the color photo above! Well, in case you were wondering, after appearing in Times Square, it wound up permanently installed down here in Sarasota, FL!
Notice how the original dude has got her in a headlock? Wasn’t a consensual kiss, people.