Originally Posted By: King Brown
...could you be specific about the PC padding (other than dedication and sacrifice), please?


In an interview with the WSJ, Burns stated that PBS required him to go back and put additional material into "The War" about Hispanics and American Indians. IMHO, the series also dwells overlong on the Japanese-Americans and the problematic role of African-Americans. The selection of Luverne, Waterbury, Sacramento and Mobile is as geographically PC as the cornball Hollywood infantry squad that always has to have a Brooklyn wise guy, a straight-shoootin' hillbilly, an innocent Midwest farm boy, an angry black man, etc.

In effect, Burns' "The War" reflects America's ethnic and social issues of today, not the reality of 1941-45.

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