Some woke Veterans Affairs officials banned the famed 1945 Times Square kissing photo from agency buildings last month — prompting their apparently fuming boss to publicly reverse the edict Tuesday.

“Let me be clear: This image is not banned from VA facilities — and we will keep it in VA facilities,” Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough wrote on X — an hour and a half after a copy of the memo that banned the supposedly politically incorrect Alfred Eisenstaedt photo surfaced.

The VA chief had not been made aware of the memo before it was issued and never approved it, sources familiar with the matter added to The Associated Press.

The iconic snap was taken by Eisenstaedt on Aug. 14, 1945 — the day the Japanese announced they were surrendering during World War II — and captured a sailor kissing a woman in a nurse’s uniform in the center of Manhattan, becoming a instant symbol of the jubilation that Americans felt with the war was finally over.

But it garnered controversy in recent years, particularly with the #MeToo movement, because the woman in the photograph, a dental assistant named Greta Zimmer Friedman, had never met the sailor, George Mendonsa, before she suddenly found herself lip-locked with him at the Crossroads of the World.

Displaying the snapshot in VA hospitals “could be construed as a tacit endorsement of the inappropriate behavior it depicts,” wrote RimaAnn Nelson, the agency’s assistant under secretary for Health for Operations, in a memo to staffers around the country last month.

“Employees have expressed discomfort with the display of this photograph,” and removing it from the VA’s facilities “reflects our dedication to creating a respectful and safe workplace, and is in keeping with our broader efforts to promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness,” Nelson wrote.

The VA honcho suggested staffers find “alternative photographs that capture the spirit of victory and peace without compromising the VAs commitment to a safe and respectful environment.”

But Mendonsa’s daughter ripped the short-lived ban to The Post — and denied her father was guilty of anything other than unbridled enthusiasm that day.

“He wasn’t just kissing her, there were thousands of sailors there,” said Sharon Molleur, 67, whose dad died in 2019, three years after Friedman and nearly 25 years after Eisenstaedt.

“They were just coming off those trains and everybody was partying,” she said of people at the time. “All the sailors were kissing [women], everybody was loaded, jumping up in the air. They were having a wonderful time.

“Those women didn’t care about that. … They were jumping in their arms,” said Molleur of Portsmouth, RI.

She added that she believes her father kissed several women that day, noting that her mother was even in the photo and that she thinks “he kissed her first.

“It was totally consensual,” she argued of the kiss between her father and Friedman, who she said “became very good friends” after.

“She should be the one to determine [whether it was assault], not someone else,” Molleur said of Friedman.

In 2005, Friedman said, “The guy just came over and kissed or grabbed.

“It was just somebody really celebrating. But it wasn’t a romantic event.”

Congressman Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) said it was “good to hear” that the ban had been reversed, “but disturbing that someone at the VA issued this in the first place.”

Post emails sent to Nelson at the VA seeking comment Tuesday bounced back, and her work phone was not set up to take messages.