Public Art "Embracing Peace"
Twenty-five-foot bronze recreation of a famous wartime embrace, cast from a photograph its own subject called forced.
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This guide to the Embracing Peace sculpture on San Diego's harbor traces the twenty-five-foot bronze back to the famous V-J Day photograph of a sailor and a nurse, and the decades-long mystery over who they actually were. It covers the amateur detective work, competing claimants, and the scars and memories that finally identified George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman. Then it turns to 2012, when the statue's arrival in San Diego set off a dispute serious enough that three port commissioners resigned over it.
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