Hawaii Five-O Gets Airtime for Snubbing Vets

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Honolulu is used to seeing Hawaii Five-O production crews run around the island doing their thing. But a crew shooting a scene at Punchbowl Cemetery last week seems to have rubbed one group of bystanders the wrong way.

Rude treatment of a group of 24 World War II vets — 23 of them Pearl Harbor survivors — has gotten the show a lot of negative publicity. 

HawaiiNewsNow, KHON and the AP all picked up the story. According to news accounts, Five-O crews were abrasive to the vets, stopping them from laying roses on the graves of unknown soldiers.

We get that Hollywood works on a tight schedule, but Steffan Tubbs’ original account of the day sure paints the crew in a poor light. Read it for yourself.

Veteran Walter Maciejowski talks to HawaiiNewsNow.

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