Davis issued his response:
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’s actions and a couple reasons why we should either discontinue or feel guilty about making such actions known. The statement that the crew is 80 percent Hawaiian has nothing to do with the behavior displayed at the cemetery on December 9. Additionally, CBS purports to be a conservative network that honors veterans, yet this behavior stands in blatant contrast to Lenkov’s statements of patriotic sentiments. Telling veterans who want to revisit and honor fallen soldiers and sailors — their comrades — for the first and last time in 70 years to shush and get out of a shot is not at all in keeping with being ‘acutely aware of the deserved respect for [...] the reverence that should be afforded to all of our veterans, particularly those who served so nobly in Hawaii and at Pearl Harbor.’ At the risk of sounding cliché, actions speak louder than words. I would like to resolve this issue as much as everyone else, but an apology for giving offense is not an apology for offensive action. On behalf of the veterans who were at the Punchbowl, and the thousands of veterans that we represent, we must decline Lenkov’s ‘apology’ and request that he acknowledge that the course of events — from trampling underfoot the headstones of those fallen warriors interred at the Punchbowl, to telling our veterans to be quiet and move from the camera shot, to refusing them two minutes time to meet with the celebrities of the show — was disrespectful, and to apologize to each of the veterans for what happened, not how our veterans felt.
Source: EW
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