Hawaii Five-O crew angers WWII vets at Punchbowl

By Brooks Baehr - bio | email

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – It was the "ultimate disrespect" that left their "blood boiling." That is how organizers of a ceremony for World War II veterans at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl describe the conduct of a production crew from the hit television series Hawaii Five-O.

Twenty-four WWII veterans, 23 of them Pearl Harbor survivors, were at Punchbowl cemetery Friday, December 9. Their visit to the cemetery was part of a trip organized by the Denver based The Greatest Generations Foundation to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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"They were on the graves, and that rubbed some of the Veterans the wrong way with all of the camera equipment and the audio and the people walking over the graves. But we did our ceremony, and just as the day progressed last Friday just disrespect after disrespect," said Steffan Tubbs, a member of the board at The Greatest Generations Foundation.

Tubbs said people on the TV production crew were noisy and kept moving about while the national anthem and taps were played. Worse yet according to Tubbs is that Five-O workers stopped vets from placing roses on the graves of unknown soldiers.

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Very disappointing, I regularly watch Hawaii Five-O because I've liked the old show since I was little, but they really need to hire some local people to (1) Teach them how be pono and show aloha (2) Stop screwing up local customs and words (3) Inject more authenticity into the show. The interviews I've seen with Peter Lenkov, the producer are very arrogant, and the attitude is starting to show. If I was the producer, I would be very aware of how sacred Punchbowl is to many and be all over the crew to conduct themselves properly