So much for making nice? The Pearl Harbor survivors who were snubbed by a Hawaii Five-O film crew at Punchbowl Cemetery last week have rejected apologies from both CBS and the show’s executive producer Peter Lenkov.

On Wednesday, Greatest Generations Foundation president and CEO Timothy Davis issued a seething statement to the network, Lenkov and the series: 

“While we would like to accept the apology provided by Peter Lenkov, it seems to us to be little more than a list of excuses for CBS’ actions and a couple reasons why we should either discontinue or feel guilty about making such actions known,” the group said in a statement. “CBS purports to be a conservative network that honors veterans, yet this behavior stands in blatant contrast to Lenkov’s statements of patriotic sentiments.

“[A]n apology for giving offense is not an apology for offensive action,” the statement continues. Davis asks that Lenkov “apologize to each of the veterans for what happened, not how our veterans felt.”

Read CBS’s apology (they invoke the fact that the production crew is “80 percent staffed with local Hawaiians, many with ties to the military”) and more on the story from Reuters.


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