Posted on 04/27/2004 3:30:51 PM PDT by 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 Citys Times Square. ABC News Radio will air excerpts of the program.
Using photographs and information drawn from the Army Times Publishing Companys online Faces of Valor database (www.militarycity.com/valor), Fridays 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, Fridays 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 Fridays 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.
Well HELLO! Effective propaganda is supposed to be "moving."
Make no mistake -- this was a leftist media exercise in Psych-Ops for anti-Bush, anti-war Democrats, and One-Worlders.
At least the patently disingenuous Koppel and ABC haven't fooled most of us.
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