By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 17:04 EST, 15 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 15 November 2013 A larger-than-life sculpture of the the famous Times Square kiss at the end of World War II got a special visitor this week at its home in Sarasota, Florida. The statue is based not on the famous picture taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published on the cover of Life, but an alternative picture of the couple snapped from a different angle by a Navy photographer and published in the New York Times. Carl 'Moose' Muscarello of Plantation, Florida, is one of several men who claims to be the sailor in the famous image
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Carl 'Moose' Muscarello is one of several men who claim to be the kissing sailor in the famous Life magazine cover
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He visited the larger-than-life sculpture reproduction of the famous V-J Day kiss in Sarasota, Florida this week
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When the end of World War II was announced on August 14, 1945, Mr Muscarello was on leave in New York and walking around Times Square with a friend
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He says he was so overcome with emotion that he kissed everything in sight, even a few men
The sculpture was originally erected in @placeholder in 2009, but was taken down after a car crash damaged the sculpture in April, 2012.