AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - In the black-and-white photo, the sailor would always be a young man, locked in a kiss with a nurse in New York's Times Square to mark the end of World War Two.

Glenn Edward McDuffie, who said he was the kissing sailor in the iconic Life magazine photograph, died this month at the age of 86, the Houston Chronicle newspaper reported on Friday.

For years, many men had claimed to be the sailor in the photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. In 2007, Life magazine's parent, Time, reported that McDuffie likely was the man, based on an analysis by a police forensic artist.

McDuffie told the Chronicle in 2007 that he never spoke to the nurse before he kissed her during celebrations to mark the end of fighting with Japan in August 1945. He was 18 at the time.

"When I got off from the subway, a lady told me the war was over, and I went into the street yelling. I saw the nurse and she was smiling at me, so I just grabbed her," he said.

He said he kept quiet about the picture for years and only came forward in 1980, when the editors of Life were seeking the two people in the photograph.

"I never thought I needed publicity, just to be somebody," McDuffie told the Chronicle. "But it made me mad they wouldn't recognize it was me."

He spent the last years of his life in poor health. His daughter, Glenda Bell, told the Chronicle that when women asked to recreate the photograph with him, he gave them a peck on the cheek.

McDuffie, who spent most of his post-war years in Houston, will be buried in a veteran's cemetery in Dallas, family members told the newspaper.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, editing by Cynthia Johnston and Amanda Kwan)

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Please, jimmy, I've read about the goof in that photo dying at least twice previously.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So he must be REALLY dead

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Both times in a JimmyPasta thread.

He is mostly dead.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

What about that sailor staring in the background? Alive or dead?

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I'm more concerned about the bank pictured.

[Nana is home knitting, the phone rings.]

NANA: Hello?

VOICE: Hello, this is Chemical Bank. Just wanted you to know that your checking account is overdrawn.

NANA: Chemical Bank? I haven't used that account in months.

VOICE: Well, someone's been cashing the checks and you're overdrawn.

NANA: Oh dear. I'll be down there first thing in the morning.

VOICE: (unheard by Nana as she hangs up the phone) Wait, we can do this over the phone.

(Fade to the next morning, the alarm clock goes off, it's 5:30, Nana turns off the alarm, fully dressed, gathers her coat and purse, sighs, and heads for the door.)

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-- source

The bank? It burned! It's gone! Now, what you want to do is go down to 49th street. That's the main customer service branch. Ask for Mr. Fleming. He'll help you.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way