TED KOPPEL TO READ LIST OF IRAQ WAR DEAD DURING ABCNEWS SPECIAL

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[faithincowboys]

TED KOPPEL TO READ LIST OF IRAQ WAR DEAD DURING ABCNEWS SPECIAL Tue Apr 27 2004 17:29:54 ET

Ted Koppel and ABC News’ “Nightline” will pay tribute to the more than 500 American service men and women killed in action in Iraq by devoting the entire broadcast to reading the service members’ names and showing their photographs. Entitled “The Fallen,” the special “Nightline” broadcast will air FRIDAY APRIL 30 (11:35 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. ABC News will also simulcast this tribute live on its Jumbotron in New York City’s Times Square. ABC News Radio will air excerpts of the program.

Using photographs and information drawn from the Army Times Publishing Company’s online “Faces of Valor” database (www.militarycity.com/valor), Friday’s “Nightline” will dedicate the half-hour program to showing a photograph of each service man and woman in succession with their name, military branch, rank and age, while Mr. Koppel reads their names aloud. Since the broadcast is only 30 minutes long, Friday’s broadcast is limited to showing just those ‘killed in action’ in Iraq, as certified by the U.S. Department of Defense.

“While ‘Nightline’ has been reporting on every fatality in Iraq and Afghanistan under the heading ‘Line of Duty,’ we realized that the casualties were on their way to becoming just numbers,” said “Nightline” executive producer Leroy Sievers. “’The Fallen’ is our way of reminding our viewers -- whether they agree with the war or not -- that beyond the casualty numbers, these men and women are serving in Iraq in our names, and that those who have been killed have names and faces.”

“Memorial Day might have been the most logical occasion on which to do this program. But we felt that the impact would actually be greater on a day when the entire nation is not focused on its war dead,” said “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel.

Listed below are the service men and women who will be honored on Friday’s “Nightline.” The list is organized alphabetically by U.S. State and includes those whose names have been released by the Pentagon from March 19, 2003 through today, April 27, 2004. Names released between now and Friday April 30, will be added to the broadcast.

[faithincowboys]

I'm speechless.

This is clearly designed to turn the country against the war.

This SOBs have no shame!!

[JLS]

Right if one could only believe he really wanted to honor the fallen rather than politicize the fallen. But sorry, I can not.

[AZamericonnie]

This should assure Koppell the Arnett award.

[CedarDave]

Memorial Day is on May 31; that date is more appropriate!!

[faithincowboys]

Isn't this amazing. Koppel clearly wants us to cut and run and for all 500 combat KIAS to die in vain-- this is obvious!!!

[mewzilla]

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

[Lost Highway]

A wolf in sheeps clothing.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Ted: F*** you and the perverted news operation you rode in on!

[johnfrink]

Thank god Nightline wasn't around after D-Day.

"We call upon the President to withdraw our forces from Europe after the catastrophic attack on Normandy, which cost us thousands of lives, and has drawn us into a quagmire and upset the stability of Europe..."

[Frank_Discussion]

A**HOLES!! WHAT is WITH those guys!? What makes them want our country to fail SO much?

Man Alive! I've never, EVER seen anything like the snake-in-the-grass shenanigans that the media and left are going into.

[GreenHornet]

Did he read the names of the sailors killed aboard the U.S.S. Cole? No, because it did not serve his agenda at the time.

[CedarDave]

“Memorial Day might have been the most logical occasion on which to do this program. But we felt that the impact would actually be greater on a day when the entire nation is not focused on its war dead,” said “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel.

And just what impact is that, Mr. Ted (Arnett) Koppel??

[stayathomemom]

Is this what we have to look forward to in the last 60 days before the election?

[faithincowboys]

Well, Ted the troll is trying to make America flinch. I believe the fallen should be honored, but most important is completing the cause they died for. The Left wants desperately for us to lose and for all the survivors to weep at their loved one's needless sacrifice. In another time, Koppel wouldn't dare pull something like this. We also should remember that Koppel wasn't born in America--he was born in Leftist Britain and he brings that sensibility to his reporting. Koppel ain't no homer, that's for sure.

[Prince Charles]

TED KOPPEL TO READ LIST OF IRAQ WAR DEAD DURING ABCNEWS SPECIAL

Theirs or ours?

[faithincowboys]

You better believe it, this is only the beginning folks.

[isthisnickcool]

Let's see if they run commercials before during or after this broadcast. Bet they do.

[johnfrink]

Nor the workers killed in the U.S. Embassies, nor the people killed in the first WTC attack, nor, for that matter, the names of people killed on 9/11. Nor the Marines killed in 1983, nor the troops killed in Afghanistan, nor...

[CedarDave]

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

A very repeatable quote.

[jacquej]

I won't be watching him. He is so old news. I do not care much about any of the "heads" on TV. Nobody watches him, and I think ignoring him is the best policy.