View full sizeStanding (far right): Sgt. Christopher Nowicki. Active military men Cope and Heim are also standing. Sitting (from left): Harvey Fick, Korean War veteran; Chester Sosnowski, World War II veteran and Ted-Theodore Lapan, World War II veteranKAWKAWLIN, MI — A photograph of the famous World War II war's end kiss hung on the wall.
Decades after that historic moment in Times Square, a group of war veterans and active military men also received an ovation at Lucky's Steak House in Bay City as a photographer captured a chance meeting.
Three men from Huron Woods Nursing Center in Kawkawlin were enjoying an annual men's luncheon at the restaurant. Harvey Fick, Korean War Veteran and Chester Sosnowski and Ted-Theodore Lapan, both World War II veterans, attended the luncheon.
"The guys always like to order steak," said Shawn Coughlin, administrator at Huron Woods Nursing Center. "At Lucky's, three current military fellas sat next to us."
Sgt. Christopher Nowicki of the Michigan Army National Guard 182nd Field Artillery out of Bay City was one of those men.
Coughlin said that diners applauded when she announced that there were three former and current miliary members present as she took the photograph.
"When heading to the front door another gentlemen got up and told me what he saw was great and that he also was a World War II Air Force pilot," Coughlin said. "The whole thing just sent chills down your spine."