Agree or disagree: Iconic WW2-era photo should be removed

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45. I think

I'm in the same space on this one.
I didn't know the real story of this picture until maybe 5-10 years ago. It was always sold as a moment of jubilation at wars end, and highlighted the lucky who were able to return home. The real story makes me slightly uncomfortable as it is certainly unacceptable behavior, but it has never been used to promote the unprovoked assault of women. I don't believe his behavior was meant to be malicious in any way, but the woman in the photo probably felt violated at the time, and that makes it wrong.
It was also a different era and that moment in time was very unique to most people on the planet. The guy in the photo may have been deployed for a very long time, being far removed from normal society while waging war against an evil. I'm sure it took most of them some time to re-acclimate to normal life again, and this act is something that would have been highly frowned on under normal circumstances, especially in that era.