Beetle Bailey's tribute to a classic photo (not to the A-bomb)

[UTUSN]

On Edit: O.K., I'll be back when I find a legal URL (later: O.K., found one). & sorry my homemade enlargement is blurry (any fixes?).

I just know that if/when we EVER get out of the current Shrub's wars, *I* will feel like KISSING PEOPLE!1 Surely, the sheer JOY that people in '45 felt over the damned war's being OVER can be seen as a stand-alone?!1

[TexasProgresive]

1. That photo always made me uncomfortable.

It was on the 50th (60th?) anniversary of VE day when I learned why. I was in a checkout line and there it was bigger then life on a magazine cover. I don't think the nurse was willing. I bet there are some interesting photos later in the roll. There are better ways of celebrating then taking someone by force.

Robert Heinlein wrote: You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their emotions quicker than you can convince one man by logic. It doesn't have to be a prejudice about an important matter either. Zebadiah Jones from If This Goes On AKA Revolt in 2100

[UTUSN]

3. The real lady in the pic never complained insofar as I've ever heard.

Now, her body language (no reciprocal hug) plus the contrast between her perfect uniform (perfect, covering EVERYTHING, fastidious) vs the ruffian sailor's rolled up sleeves and pushed back cap (violations of uniform) --all indicate the difference between the two. Tipper looked the same way in Al's "kiss" in 2000.

As I say, the lady who prevailed over several others in claiming to be the original nurse in the pic seemed to bask in having become the inspiration for an iconic image, and just about the whole generation of that time found expression of their own feelings in that picture.

Surely, the simple JOY of the war's being over, APART from everything else, can stand on its own.

Not to mention the special angle of one artist in one genre paying tribute to another one in a different one.

I speak for ruffian sailors who never resorted to force, but were nevertheless ruffians.

[AngryOldDem]

2. Surprised it's not Colonel Halftrack and his secretary...

...whose name (also sexist, I remember that much) escapes me at the moment.