THE SANDS OF TIME – AT 8:58 A.M. ET:  We're history buffs here, and so are many of our readers, so I thought you'd like to know this, from the New York Post:

LOS ANGELES - A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York’s Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday.

The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. history and became an iconic image marking the end of the war after being published in Life magazine.

The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to the photographer saying that she was the woman in the picture taken on August 14 at a time when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York City...

...Shain, who died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, leaves behind three sons, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

We can't reproduce the photo legally, but you can find it here.  Many of you probably have it etched in your minds. 

The greatest generation is dying out.  A sailor who was only 18 in 1945 would be 83 today.  Pretty soon, they'll all be gone...replaced by...must we say it...the sixties generation.

We can correct that in time.

June 24, 2010