A battle with Ken Burns over The War

“Now we know that as Burns mouthed these words, he was preparing “The War,” his 14-hour documentary on World War II to be aired on PBS this fall. According to all accounts, the film fails to include a single reference to the Latino experience in that decisive conflict.

This is ironic for at least two reasons.

First, by erasing the contributions of this nations Spanish-speaking communities, Burns distorts the collective history of all the people in these United States.

Second, his erasure means that he has no clue about where we are and where we are going as a nation. That as many as half a million Latinos and Latinas served in that war as well as in Vietnam, Iraq and every other U.S. conflict cannot be disconnected from the fact that today Latinos are the largest minority ethnic/racial group in the country.”

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