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This is in response to a writing prompt regarding the photo of the sailor kissing the woman in the iconic end of WW II photo, and his passing away at age 95.
A picture tells a thousand words, but it doesn’t necessarily tell the whole story.
Case in point. The infamous picture of the sailor kissing the woman in New York City at the end of World War II. Everyone assumes they were in love and happy to see each other, but what if a drunken sailor was committing a sexual assault on that woman, who did not wish to be kissed.
Let me play Devil’s Advocate for a moment. It was the closest they would let me get to being evil, so please humor me.
I am not disrespecting that iconic photograph in any way. I’m just suggesting we take a trip down the rabbit hole and see what might have happened had that been an actual sexual assault.
A drunken sailor comes off a boat, we’ll try to piece together how he came off the boat drunk later, and to use the lingo of the time, grabs the first dame he sees, bends her over and plants a big one right on her lips.
Once they stand back up I would assume the first thing she would do is start beating the crap out of him with her purse and yelling for Shore Patrol. I’m sure eventually The ONI, the precursor to NCIS was on the scene quickly to help out.
There’s no official confirmation but it’s possible that a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon’s character on the TV show NCIS) was there on the pier that fateful day.
What happened to that man once he sobered up and got out of the brig? He was dishonorably discharged from Naval service and went on to pioneer ways that addiction was treated but also made great advances in the field of, “Impulsive Stupidity.”
It’s that state in our minds where for that brief moment we know what we’re doing is wrong, but we don’t care and do it anyway. He can fix that.
Allegedly.
The woman continued her search for a sailor with money who could wine her and dine her for the weekend and who she would promptly dump Sunday night and start all over again next weekend with a new sailor fresh off the boat.
Look at the photo again and see if you are able to picture it the other way. As the sailor randomly grabbing a woman, dipping and kissing her. And as the woman simply on the dock to look for this weekend’s meal ticket.
As to how he left the ship drunk, turns out he works in the mess hall and procured some fruit to make some crazy wine that will probably rot your insides, but it gets you drunk, so what the hell, right?
Funny how one thing can actually be two if you look t it properly. This all being said and done, chances are that it’s simply a sailor kissing his woman after being overseas fighting for freedom.
But maybe not.
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