or, if it were to remain on public property, that signage accurately disclosing the nature of the non-consensual act it depicts be added in order to promote conversation and discourage emulation. Her site provides a comprehensive history of the original photograph, the copyright controversy, documentation of the subjects and their comments, how the statue was manufactured—rather than being the original art required by the city standards—and the number of other copies, public sentiments about the statue, and details about the proposal for an interpretive sign to address contemporary cultural attitudes regarding the non-consensual nature now known about the event captured in the famous photograph. Controversy led to tagging as sexual assault Unconditional Surrender has been a topic of controversy many times, both pro and con, but in 2019, after the man thought to be the subject of the original photograph, V-J Day in Times Square died and media coverage that followed made it better known that the woman thought to be the other subject was not known to the sailor depicted and had related that it was not consensual, controversy over the statue gained new momentum with more accusations that it depicts a sexual assault. The day after his death, the statue in Sarasota was vandalised with #MeToo graffiti. A tweet from the police department stated late one evening that they had dispatched officers to the statue in response to a report that "Unconditional Surrender" had been vandalized. When officers arrived, they saw the large words, "#MeToo", painted in red on the left leg of the woman. The police noted later that they were uncertain of the time of the tagging because no surveillance cameras captured the activity and there were no reports of witnesses. 2010: Hamilton, New Jersey A 25-feet-tall styrofoam copy of Unconditional Surrender, built in 2005 and on loan from the Seward Johnson Atelier was installed at the 42-acre Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) that Johnson founded in Hamilton, New Jersey, as part of a retrospective honoring him that ran from May 4, 2014, through July 1, 2015. Writing up this event, a staff writer for The Trentonian described Unconditional Surrender as a "masterpiece". 2011: Pearl Harbor In August 2011, a life-size copy 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.