True but compared to having one’s ass shot at by hard core Nazi’s and being told by some tin pot ticket puncher to swap seats are hardly comparable.
Civil rights heroes came later and are recognized as is proper.
My point is Fifty years from now are we going to make movies making heroes of every grannie or toddler who is forced to stripseach just to get on an airplane? or honor those who like Flight 93(IIRC) who took the extraordinary efforts to fight terrorism.
Make no doubt, I believe those veterans like the Tuskegee pilots and other black soldiers helped end the war against fascism and should be honored as such.
But so do other millions of unnamed veterans of various ethnic backgrounds with equal grievances who are content to know that they were part of the Greatest Generation and quietly accept their recognition as heroes simply as just soldiers who did their part.
Black vets Brown vets Red Yellow White.
The important word is vet.
And I fully expect Lee to overshadow that point.
A lack of respect from the fellow Americans whose asses you fought to save added insult to injury.
Civil rights heroes came later and are recognized as is proper.
There is a direct lineage from black WWII veterans to the Civil Rights movement. Vets began to claim the citizenship they had paid for in blood. Jackie Robinson was chosen to be the first black player in Major League Baseball in large part because of his service record -- including an incident in which he refused an unjust order, He was court-martialed and acquitted.
Make no doubt, I believe those veterans like the Tuskegee pilots and other black soldiers helped end the war against fascism and should be honored as such.
Then what's the problem with this movie?
But so do other millions of unnamed veterans of various ethnic backgrounds with equal grievances who are content to know that they were part of the Greatest Generation and quietly accept their recognition as heroes simply as just soldiers who did their part.
You can't tell me with a straight face that there's a lack of movies honoring WWII vets without singling out a single racial or ethnic group. Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan in recent years, to name but two of hundreds.
There has also been at last one movie about the Navajo Code Talkers. At least one about Ira Hayes. A couple about the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team made up of Japanese-Americans. I wouldn't mind seeing additional serious treatments of all of those stories.
I don't think that focusing on one unique story diminishes all the others.