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The woman later married him and she was a nurse.
The statue was vandalised one day after his death when he died at the age of 95.
His wife was happy with him, the kiss photo and the statue so who are others to comment, vandalise and remove a iconic statue?

In a 2005 interview for the Veteran's History Project, Greta Zimmer Friedman said it wasn't her choice to be kissed and that Mr Mendonsa "grabbed" her.

However, she made it clear the kiss was a "jubilant act" and "it was just an event of 'thank god the war is over.'"

After Ms Zimmer's death in 2016, her son told the New York Times his mother did not view the kiss negatively.

Sarasota Police Department shared the images of the defaced statue on social media, leading many to express their annoyance at the graffiti and the insinuation that the kiss was sexual assault.

"This statue represents a period in time that many today cannot relate to," one person wrote on Facebook. "The whole country was celebrating the end of a war - the whole country was together in that celebration."

Another commented: "Sexual assault is terrible but this was certainly not that situation. I can assure you this poor man who just died this week was not thinking of sexually assaulting a woman when he found out World War Two was over!"

Others suggested that the vandalism was disrespectful, given Mr Mendonsa's recent death.

"[It is] sad this happened, especially since this guy just died the other day at 95 years old."

However, others suggested the graffiti was justified.

One Facebook user urged the city to "take the statue down".

Ella is 18 years old. She recently graduated high school and quit her fast food restaurant Jon after two of her females coworkers almost choked her to death and stumped her head on the ground. Ella wanted to find another way to make money and felt quite sad. She started panhandling and made an average amount of 90 dollars every 5 hours on the street. She also got two date offers from old men. Ella was happy but she knew her parents wouldn't be once they found out. Ella eventually met Dustin, a 19 year old homeless teenager with no friends, no family and he was quite scared and hurt himself. He told her the story of him shitting his pants and crying about it and being beaten for stealing a sandwich. He heard her story at the restaurant and told her that he had his head banged against a wall until he bled and passed out as a child. Ella feels bad for Dustin, especially seeing him tear up and get emotional. Ella likes Dustin's quiet humble nature but she feels like she shouldn't. Ella starts giving Dustin some of her money to him and they talk every once in a while. They even kissed and made out in her bedroom.