Analyzing Gret Zimmer's Role In The Vietnam War

First, this photograph is spontaneous. For example, Moments after US President Harry S. Truman announced The United States won the victory over Japan in 1945, George Mendonsa, wearing his tailored, dark navy blue sailor uniform and white cap, who was actually on a first date seeing “A Bell for Adano” at Radio City Music Hall with his now wife, Rita Petry, left the show early after hearing the announcement “The war is over.” The couple ran into a nearby bar, quickly knocked back a few drinks that the bartender already had lined up and then ran out into the crowded, chaotic, loud and joyful streets of Times Square. After kissing countless women, young and old, George spotted, grabbed, dipped backward and kissed the first nurse he saw in celebration. That nurse would later be identified as Greta Zimmer from Austria and who wasn’t a nurse at all, but a dental assistant Additionally, Greta is seen in the picture wearing a white nurse's style dress that hits right above her knees, white stockings, and white Oxford pumps with square, wide heels. She’s being held at the waist by Georges right arm and his left arm around her neck, keeping her stable, while he plants what would later be described as “The kiss that ended the war.” Furthermore, Rita Petry, who is the woman he was on the date with and the one he would end up marrying, is seen in the background, over his right shoulder, watching her future husband, smiling. She was not the only person witnessing what would be one of the most iconic pictures of World War 2.