90-Year-Old Woman From Iconic WWII Photo to be Grand Marshall in New York's Veterans Day Parade
"This guy grabbed me and we kissed, and then I turned one way and he turned the other. There was no way to know who he was, but I didn't mind because he was someone who had fought for me."
(New York, NY)—Guess who the grand marshall in this year's Veterans Day parade in NY is? The answer is, 90-year-old Edith Shain, the woman believed to be the young girl kissing a sailor in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photo taken on VJ Day in New York in 1945. (Photo: Getty)
Miss Shain, who later became a kindergarten teacher, remembers the spontaneity of the act: "This guy grabbed me and we kissed, and then I turned one way and he turned the other. There was no way to know who he was, but I didn't mind because he was someone who had fought for me." (Photo: AP)
