PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War

To escape the poverty of South Texas migrant camps, Homer Garza joined the U.S. Army. Months later he and his company found themselves surrounded in South Korea by an invading North Korean force. Garza's story is one of many shared in the PBS documentary "KOREA: The Never-Ending War". The film, a production of WETA Washington, is scheduled to air on most PBS stations Monday and examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War --- a conflict largely forgotten in the U.S. It also tells the story of a war that redefined the region from the perspective of families, U.S. veterans and journalists. Filmmaker John Maggio said he wanted to create something that wasn't f...

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