VA Rescinds Memo Directing Facilities To Take Down Iconic V-J Day Times Square Photo Depicting ‘Non-Consensual’ Kiss
The memo was lambasted online before the veterans affairs secretary said the photograph would remain in VA facilities.
People speak next to a famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York's Times Square on V-J Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough has reversed a department memo shared by a VA undersecretary that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic photograph because it 'depicts a non-consensual act' and was inconsistent with the department’s sexual harassment policy. AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko
