A new PBS series is coming Sept 23. It's about WWII and includes stories from Japanese-Americans who were in the war or had relatives in the war.

I'm slowly turning into a WWII buff, especially visuals from the period. My father was a survivor of D-Day, so my interest began with him and continues for him since his death in 2000.

The series is called, "The War" and is born from stories of veterans from the war and family members of veterans. No expert commentary is used, it is solely a look at the war from the people's perspective.

This link takes you to video clips from the series including one from Robert Kashiwagi, who was a member of the 442nd. You will need to scroll down to find it.

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/video_clips.htm

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That series was supposed to air earlier this year. There was a lot of criticism from Latino communities because it completely ignored Latino servicemen and women. Then Native people got on the bandwagon, which is significant, because the documentary also ignored the Navajo codetalkers. Additional footage, voiceovers, and narration had to be tacked on. It's from Ken Burns, I think, whose baseball and Civil War documentaries were good, so I will watch it when it airs.

Yeah, that sounds familiar. I do remember something about the Latino community voicing concerns about a tv series, but I had no idea this was it. And the Navajo community too. I'm glad he took their critiscism to heart and included their stories too. I'm interested in hearing the Latino stories, once again my eyes are opened to something I had no clue about. Thanks Paloma.

I heard a bit more about this today on NPR from a listener who called in. The documentary is around 14 1/2 hours long, and Ken Burns added 18 minutes on Latino contributions. The extra minutes are shown right before the final closing credits of the whole documentary. It is still being boycotted in several cities that have large Latino populations, which last time I checked, is every large U.S. city. I wondered about the futility of boycotting public programming, but they have the right to get up in arms about it. Put into context, 18 minutes does seem insufficient.
And I heard nothing about the codetalkers. When you consider that most Native Americans still did not have the right to vote during WWII, and you also know about the disproportionate number of Native men and women who serve in the military-disproportionate based on our percentage of the U.S. population, to ignore those contributions also seems like an oversight.

Yeah, it sure does.

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I agree....it's too little too late. I need to do more reading about the documentary and Burns' original intentions, time constraints, etc. to see if there was a good reason for this, or were these people left out intentionally. I'm sure if they were, he wouldn't admit it. There is a lot of info about the making of on the PBS.org site.