Campaign News
September 2007
Nisei WWII soldiers are featured in every episode of Ken Burns' PBS series, "The War," that premiered nationwide on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007. Burns and co-producer Lynn Novick feature many veterans, but they felt strongly that the Nisei were the most compelling. "The one exception we made to pursuing any one particular ethnic group was the Japanese Americans, who we think experienced the worst, most hypocritical treatment from the United States and then went to serve their country with such extraordinary valor and glory that we could not ignore it," said Burns. "Indeed, in every episode of the film, there's a section on the Japanese Americans, beginning with a nucleus of three men we met in Sacramento" (The Rafu Shimpo Newspaper, August 24, 2007, Page 3).
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