Maybe one of my more crazier notions...

Mornin, Mornin... This might be one of my more crazier notions but here ya go...

In August we are coming up on 65 days since V-J day and with so many of our military still engaged overseas, why not take something iconic and use is at a "poster-child" image to push for world peace in our era?... Sorta/kinda a "Bring them home again" kind of notion...

While I understand the reasons for why our troops are in various locations around the world, even with an all-volunteer military --- AND major KUDOs to all who are serving, plus their family members who hold down the home front --- it would be nice to see the world more at peace in my lifetime...

I was thinking about this idea during my browse through the morning news - something I can only take so much of because it is so disheartening to see humans destroying other humans and their lives - and I stumbled across that iconic photograph of V-J Day in Times Square...

Both the sailor and the nurse are still alive --- or at least the people who claim to be these two in the photo... Life Magazine still has not resolved exactly who the sailor is I believe, but Edith Shain is generally believed to the nurse in the photo, trying to hold down her skirt... The 91-year old showed up Tuesday at a restaurant in San Francisco...

Now, wouldn't it be great if we could get these two people back together and stage this photograph again, updated with them but in the same stance and for a caption, ask the American public to 'bring them home again' in the upcoming year?...

There seems to still be a controversy over who the sailor is, but generally  Glen McDuffie is said to be that young man in the photograph... And it seems he readily will pony up and kiss a lady in the same pose when asked...

LOL...

If Edith is in California and Glenn is in Texas, wouldn't it be great to get both back to Times Square in New York and recreate this scene, updating for today's generation?... Without a doubt, Times Square has changed dramatically but if it would take something in everyone's minds eye to inspire them to get the majority of our military back home, wouldn't it be worth it???

Our kids of this generation aren't as dramatically affected as those who went through the two world wars... It seems that the more it happens, the more we seem to accept the craziness of countries fighting and killing each others peoples... Most of us will never ever forget 9/11 here in this country, but every country around the world has some kind of "9/11" where innocents were killed on their soil for some global or political cause...

If each country took an iconic image, recreated and updated it for today's times, it might just have a dramatic effect on the upcoming generations who are calloused to the point dying doesn't have as much of a spiritual or emotional impact on them...

Something to think about on Earth Day, huh?... Saving the planet for future generations by not repeating the carnage of our past...

As Always,

The Lady