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 Loads of kisses
By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer
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| Bob Kinzler of 'Aiea recalls how women grabbed every serviceman in uniform they saw and kissed him. It was a great day to be a soldier, he says.
Rebecca Breyer | The Honolulu Advertiser
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Bob Kinzler was a 1st lieutenant in the Army on leave when the war ended. He was traveling to Newark, N.J., from Atlantic City.
He was stationed at Schofield Barracks when Pearl Harbor was attacked and would later serve at radar stations in the Pacific and along the California coast.
He was waiting for a train when peace came. The party in Atlantic City wasn't memorable, but the journey to Newark sure was, Kinzler recalled.
"By the time I got to Newark, I had been kissed several times," said Kinzler, now an 83-year-old 'Aiea resident.
In Newark, it was good to be a man in uniform.
"Everyone was out and everyone was happy," Kinzler said. "Every serviceman the women saw, they grabbed and kissed. They sure did. I was in my glory. I was an officer, all dressed up with ribbons and bars."
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