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*** The company last garnered nationwide media attention in the spring, when it opted not to run "Nightline" on its ABC affiliates, including WLOS. Sinclair accused anchor Ted Koppel of pushing a political agenda when he read the names of military members who died in Iraq as their pictures appeared on the screen***

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***....."The political people at Nightline decided it's time to get the definitive truth. What happened with Kerry's medals, specifically his Silver Star? So what did they do? They went to Vietnam and they interviewed former -- ahem -- Viet Cong soldiers and former villagers who were eyewitnesses to the events. They were not interested in talking to the swift boat vets, as you recall." .....Source

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And now a word from the 'dominoes' (disputing Kerry's senate testimony)***DURING THE Vietnam War, John Kerry testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee panel that an investigation conducted by Kerry and his group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, revealed that U.S. soldiers committed atrocities in Vietnam. The investigation was called Winter Soldier.

Now that Kerry wants to be president, some of his former military colleagues say they still resent his allegations. They believe that Kerry slandered his colleagues as war criminals merely as a pretext for gaining support for the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. They believe he was pandering to those who said the "domino theory" was not valid, that the Vietnamese communists were nationalists not terrorists.

One way to try to resolve those conflicting views is asking those affected most by the war - the South Vietnamese. Philadelphia has a large Vietnamese community composed mostly of Vietnamese refugees. Some were "boat people" who fled the horror of communist Vietnam on rafts, boats and pieces of driftwood, risking their lives. Others are more recent arrivals. All fled the utopia that Vietnam was supposed to become, according to Kerry and his anti-war colleagues………..***