What the Navy kiss backlash is really about

US sailor Bryan Woodington recently returned from a seven-month deployment aboard the USS The Sullivans and with a specific homecoming celebration in mind. Woodington won the vessel's ceremonial kiss raffle and couldn't wait to share that coveted, traditional moment with his spouse. "I was excited, and I could not wait for it to happen," Woodington told CNN affiliate WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida. "I knew I was going to dip him." And dip his husband, Kenneth, he did, recreating Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic 1945 "Kissing Sailor" image, taken on V-J Day in Times Square.

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