Latino WWII vets ‘don’t deserve this’

“Evelyn Jasso Garcia’s father fought in World War II. So did six of her uncles. When service to their nation was finished, all the men came home to San Antonio to serve their community ”” as breadwinners for their families, leaders in their churches and advocates for minority civil rights.

All are deceased now, but Saturday morning, Garcia and two of her sisters took their family photos and stories into the streets, joining in a protest of a seven-part PBS World War II documentary that they feel slights the wartime contributions of Latino families such as theirs.

“They don’t deserve this,” said Garcia, a retired nurse. “They were dignified and respectful people who became servants in their community after they came back from the war. They kept on giving back.”

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