Panthers Honor Vets, Including Man Claiming To Be Soldier In Famous Picture

At Thursday's Military Appreciation Night game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Florida Panthers honored veterans. 

In particular, they honored one man who has long held that he's the sailor in the now infamous kissing photo.

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Carl Muscarello, 91, who moved to Plantation after retiring from the NYPD, took to the ice last night.

"I am no hero. The only action I ever saw was kissing the girls on Broadway,” said Muscarello. “If you could get a medal for that, I’d be in the White House right now and Donald Trump would be putting it on my shoulder."

He's one of several men who have come forward over the years and claimed to be the mystery sailor. Last September, the nurse in the famed picture, Greta Friedman, passed away.

"It took my friends and family almost 50 years for me to come forward publicly because it was no big deal,” he said. “I mean, I was no hero. And I was…saddened for some of my friends who never came home."


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