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Rita Mendonsa, center, sits in front of her husband George's flag-draped casket during funeral services at St. Columba Cemetery in Middletown, R.I., Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. George Mendonsa, the sailor sailor photographed kissing a woman in Times Square at the end of World War, died Sunday at age 95. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Funeral held for sailor in V-J Day Times Square kiss photo

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In this Aug. 14, 1945, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a sailor and a woman kiss in New York's Times Square, as people celebrate the end of World War II. The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95. It was years after the photo was taken that Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform, were confirmed to be the couple. (Victor Jorgensen/U.S. Navy, File)

George Mendonsa, sailor in iconic V-J Day Times Square kiss photo, dies at 95

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