JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: Sixty years ago tomorrow, pandemonium swept America.  The war with Japan      was over.</s>Ms. EDITH SHAIN: People were wild:  hugging, kissing and shouting.  I      mean, why not?</s>JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: Eighty-seven-year-old Edith Shain's celebratory kiss stands out      from all the rest.  It was captured in black and white.  You've probably      seen the photo.  Shain stands in Times Square, swooning in the arms of a      young sailor who's holding her gracefully by the waist.  This week, Shain      was back in Times Square where she met with reporters at the unveiling of      a life-size, lifelike statue of that embrace.  Edith Shain says she had      no idea photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was taking her picture.</s>Ms. EDITH SHAIN: I was working part-time at Doctor's Hospital and going to New      York University.  Somebody grabbed me, and kissed me, and held me for      quite a while--and somebody's tried to estimate how long it was; I don't      know, seven or eight seconds--and then let me go, and I went one way, and      he went another. I don't know who he is.  It was in Life magazine the      week after, and I saw my photograph there, but I didn't tell anybody.  I      was embarrassed.  But I never told anybody until 1980.  I wasn't moved by      it.  I thought it was a nice photograph and that, you know, it was just a      photograph.</s>JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: Edith Shain spoke with producer Kathleen Horan of member station      WNYC.</s>JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: And lovers in New York, you may want to head to Times Square tomorrow.      There will be a kiss-in to mark the anniversary of VJ Day.</s>JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: This is NPR.
New York has unveiled a life-sized statue in Times Square, based on a famous Life magazine photo of New Yorkers celebrating the end of the war with Japan on Aug. 14, 1945. Edith Shain, the woman in the photo, was on hand for the unveiling. Edith Shain, 86, poses next to Seward Johnson's sculpture "Unconditional Surrender." It's a tribute to the famous photo of Shain being kissed by a sailor on V-J Day, Aug. 14, 1945. 