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life: 50 Photos That Brought the War Home. It’s Veterans Day and the least we can do. No single picture from World War II — in fact, arguably, no single 20th-century photograph — is more famous than Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “VJ Day in Times Square.” On August 14, 1945 — but when this photo appeared in LIFE, countless readers were drawn to the story it told: a man and a woman, both in uniform, both young, in the very heart of America’s greatest city, celebrating the end of a long, brutal conflict with that most unwarlike of gestures: a lingering, “Who cares who sees us?” kiss. This is my favorite picture ever.

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    Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt
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    my favorite picture ever.
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    yeah this photo still makes me uncomfortable. that vice grip he has on her. it just gives off the vibe “this is...
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