<P> In August 2011, a life - size version of the statue was unveiled in Waikiki, Hawaii, and later taken to the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, where it was to stay to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II . </P> <P> In 2012, a monumental statue of Unconditional Surrender could be seen in Civitavecchia Marina . </P> <P> The bronze replacement Unconditional Surrender statue arrived to its new home on February 11, 2013 . On February 14, 2013, the replacement was bolted into place near its original location . </P> <P> In September 2014, the statue was removed from Civitavecchia and installed at the Caen Memorial in Normandy . In Civitavecchia, hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the dismantling . It was precisely this installation in Caen, which was conversely also controversial . In October 2014, French feminist group Osez La Feminisme (fr) petitioned to have the statue removed and sent back to the United States, stating, "the sailor could have laughed with these women, embraced them, asked if he could kiss them with joy . No, he chose to grab them, with clenched fists, to kiss them . It was an assault ." Following this incident, the Caen memorial placed a plaque under the sculpture to explain the nurse's identity . </P>

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