This past Sunday, CBS made an apology to its viewers after receiving criticism for a recent Amazing race episode located in Vietnam.

The reality show visited Vietnam for one of its segments which took place at a war memorial in Hanoi and included footage of a wrecked United States. B-52 bomber. Show participants, who were looking for clues at the location, also heard a North Vietnamese Communist song which they were to learn along with the children singing it.

The segment brought in angry responses from many viewers, including letters from the commander in chief of the VFW, John Hamilton, and American Legion National Commander James Koutz.

John Hamilton wrote” I hope you can understand our anger at a show that wasted a golden opportunity to educate as well as entertain. The scene with the B-52 wreckage could have been used to tell a story about what was then America’s longest war, about the 58,195 American names on the Vietnam Wall, about the 1,652 Americans still listed as missing-in-action, or about the fates of the multiple crewmen aboard each of the 17 American B-52s we lost in combat. The B-52 scene, as well as the young people singing a propaganda song, was totally unnecessary to the show’s plot, which speaks volumes about naïve producers who think they’re in charge when they are not."

The host of the show expressed regret and apologized to the veterans the following week saying we here at CBS and the show have the most profound respect for the men and women who fight for our country," Senator John McCain of Arizona tweeted "CBS did the right thing by apologizing for Amazing Race Hanoi episode," "We all make mistakes — the issue is closed." McCain was shot down while on a bombing mission over Hanoi and held captive in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison for five and a half years.

Last week, McCain marked the 40th anniversary of his release from the Vietnamese prison.

The American Legion and the VFW also accepted the CBS apology.