Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse in Eisenstaedt’s iconic Times Square V-J Day photograph, has died. She was 91.

“You can imagine how people felt. They were just elated,” Shain said in a 2005 interview with The Times. “Someone grabbed me and kissed me, and I let him because he fought for his country. I closed my eyes when I kissed him. I never saw him.”

Coincidentally, that photograph was on a very short list of posters I’d selected to possibly decorate a wall in my apartment.