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Veteran's Affairs Chief Seems to Beat a Hasty Retreat Amid Claims the VA is Banning an Iconic Photo

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

Earlier today the Twitter account End Wokeness made a big splash by posting an internal memorandum that he'd gotten his hands on purportedly from the Department of Veterans Affairs. In the memo, RimaAnn O. Nelson, Assistant Undersecretary for Health for Operations, appeared to be telling directors of VA hospitals that an iconic American photograph was no longer permitted to be hung in Veterans Affairs facilities:

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Do you recognize the photo? Of course, you do! The photograph was taken in New York City's Times Square on 'V-J Day' by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945 and has long symbolized the euphoria that was felt by service men and women as well as American civilians at the news that after years of bloody war America and the Allies had finally achieved victory over the Axis powers. Why were they coming after the photograph? Because it depicts a 'non-consensual sex act' and is therefore triggering to victims of sexual assault or something.

Come on!

Reactions to the memo were not great, to put it mildly.

Complaints about this photograph aren't actually new, it's been a particular bugaboo of the left off and on for a long time now, despite neither person in the photo seeming to have minded the interaction... to the point that they were happy to get together and talk about it with CBS in 2012:

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So yes, pushback was quick and fierce, and it seems to have forced the Department of Veterans Affairs into full-on retreat... to the point that Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, was forced to step in personally to assure people that removing the photo is not VA policy.

Now of course this begs the question of if this was a rogue undersecretary who thought she could get away with censoring a classic piece of American history from the walls of VA facilities unnoticed, or if this was something that was approved by the administration but has now been hastily walked back. There's really only one way this can go if this was a rogue employee, right?

Seems like any of the rest of us would get canned if we got our boss and employer in this much hot water, but as we all know things always seem to work differently in government jobs.

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Weird to keep it up if that's how the department truly feels, right?

Neither option is good optics.

There is of course always the possibility that the original memo was a fake, but given the popularity and reach of End Wokeness it would be amazing if they didn't verify that this was a genuine memo... but it's always possible. Secretary McDonough hasn't, as of this time, said anything about the veracity of the original memo or if any steps will be taken assuming that it's real, given the very public faceplant that it caused for the VA. We'll keep an eye on the story and let you know if anything changes.

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