A Denver-led group of Pearl Harbor survivors say they were offended that the crew of the CBS drama “Hawaii Five-O” didn’t show proper respect during a ceremony last week commemorating the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Denver-based Greatest Generations Foundation took 23 veterans to visit Honolulu’s National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The veterans were offended that crew members didn’t stop production during the national anthem and taps and that they walked on graves, said Steffan Tubbs, a foundation board member and co-host of 850 KOA-AM’s morning news show. He visited the cemetery with the group.
The crew was filming a scene involving a character visiting his father’s grave, which was surrounded by the real graves of WWII heroes, Tubbs said. Cemetery director Gene Castagnetti said the filming was approved in advance. The police drama donated $1,000 to the cemetery, a Honolulu TV station reported. CBS officials said they were looking into the matter.
The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific is the resting place for some 34,000 veterans of World War I, World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The Associated Press
