stolen honor wounds that never heal is scheduled to run on 62 Sinclair stations between now and November. Most likely the 42 minute documentary will air between October 21st and 24th.
Sinclair Broadcasting has offered John Kerry time on its affiliates to air a rebuttal. So far, John Kerry has passed on that offer.
Those 62 Sinclair stations reach nearly a quarter of American television households.
Excerpt from the Documentary
- Winter soldier's investigation
- POW's believe the anti-war activists kept them in prision
- Kerry paints a lasting portrait of Vietnam veterans
WASHINGTON, DC (9/10/2004) - When John Kerry appeared before the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the spring of 1971, his anti-war testimony accusing American soldiers of barbaric acts in Vietnam sent shock waves throughout America and the world.
In a new documentary STOLEN HONOR: WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL, former POWs tell their stories of their brutal life as prisoners of war in North Vietnam and the suffering they endured after their North Vietnamese captors read to them John Kerry's words accusing American soldiers of atrocities and demanded the POWs confess to Kerry's "war crimes" allegations.
The surviving men and their families, who felt betrayed by Kerry, speak out through Stolen Honor against the testimony made by Mr. Kerry in the early 1970's. Funding for the documentary's production was made possible by Pennsylvania veterans.
Many POWs were interviewed for the documentary which produced more than 20 hours of testimony of the physical and psychological abuse they suffered in the North Vietnamese prison camps. Then, in 1971, Kerry gave the North Vietnamese what the POWs had endured torture and solitary confinement to avoid saying.
Stolen Honor, produced by Red White and Blue Productions, Inc., an independent documentary producer based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was released Thursday, September 9 and previewed at the Marine Officers Reserve Building in Washington, DC with many POWs and their family members featured in the film. The 45-minute film includes testimony from highly decorated POW's and their wives of previously undisclosed details regarding life in the North Vietnamese prison camps after John Kerry's congressional testimony and public anti-war statements and activities.
Carlton Sherwood, President of Red White and Blue Production and producer of STOLEN HONOR is a decorated veteran of Vietnam and a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He served with the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines while in Vietnam before forging a journalistic career. Sherwood also worked as a reporter for Gannett News Service. Others interviewed include James H. Warner, Marine Pilot, POW 5 years, five months, one day, Silver Star, Legion of Merit and Leo Thorsness, Air Force Pilot, POW 5 years, 19 days, medal of Honor Silver, 6 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 10 Air Combat Medals, 2 Purple Hearts.
