THE WAR | "Lapse into bad language" | PBS

Published: Sept. 10, 2007, 1:02 p.m.

THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. \n\nSidney Phillips worries that his colorful wartime vocabulary might follow him home to Mobile, AL, in this clip from part five.