NEW YORK - AUGUST 12: People gather beneath a 26-foot statue inspired by the iconic kiss between a nurse and a sailor in Times Square August 12, 2010 in New York City. Alfred Eisenstaedt took the famous photograph on V-J Day marking the end of World War II. August 14 will be the 65th anniversary of V-J Day and the famous kiss.
Sophia Cinl and Oscar Mendez, left, Erin Calabrese and Stella Sensel, center, and Julia Maksimova Tai Odunsi watch the ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of VJ Day prior to the kiss in, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 in New York's Times Square. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer).
Italian tourists Antonio and Tatsiana Espano photograph themselves reenacting the scene of an unidentified sailor kissing nurse Edith Shain in Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph, at New York's Times Square with a 25 feet (7.6 m) statue of of the event in the background, August 12, 2010. Americans will gather for a group "kiss-in" at Times Square and buglers across the country will play the military funeral tune "Taps" on Saturday in the first national day of remembrance for the World War Two generation.
Cristina Casas and Ruben Requena of Barcelona, Spain, kiss in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 to mark the 65th anniversary of VJ Day.
Couples kiss in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, on the 65th anniversary of VJ Day.
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