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]

That's what they are about-- aiding and comforting the RPG wielding thigs. Ted's karma just went down the toilet.

[mewzilla]

We should start calling him Tikrit Ted.

[Mo1]

In the midst of a war it reeks of political opportunism.

BINGO

[SF Republican]

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

[ladyinred]

I don't watch him, you don't watch him, but sorry jacquej, liberals do watch him. I hear from coworkers all of the time about what was on nightline. There is a whole world out there where people think these "journalists" are there to tell them the truth.

[faithincowboys]

That's not what this is about-- this exercise is about turning the Country against the War and aiding Kerry and the RPG wielding thugs in the Middle East. Don't get suckered by this.

Sure, we'll watch it and weep and salute, but the mods and the Left will use the blood of the dead to elect Kerry and to surrender to the terrorists. I don't want the fallen to have died in vain-- the Left wants that.

[Mo1]

It makes NO sense! What the H*ll do these morons hope to achieve? How does this help anybody? What is their D*mn point!!?

They are doing it for the elections

One would think after Vietnam these jerks would learn not to play political games in time of war

There is a special place in hell for these people

[antaresequity]

This will turn off so many people to ABC and Koppell

Let him do it...he is living in a fantasy land if he thinks this will turn a tide

The liberals are like moths to a fire these days...

[faithincowboys]

Damn straight-- he is a real sociopathic SOB.

[SerpentDove]

Fear not. It will have the opposite effect, and renew our fighting spirit.

These guys are pathetic.

[faithincowboys]

They have already caused 58,000 heroes to die in vain and they want more heroes to die in vain. Shame on them.

[faithincowboys]

They have already caused 58,000 heroes to die in vain and they want more heroes to die in vain. Shame on them.

[faithincowboys]

They have already caused 58,000 heroes to die in vain and they want more heroes to die in vain. Shame on them.

[omniscient]

But WHY WHY WHY!!??

It all boils down to their loathing of capitalism, individualism, morality, and the idea of personal responsibility. They want the US to fail and become a medium-level socialist state, purged of any independent thinking, with an abortion clinic beside every Starbucks.

[My2Cents]

These guys are so mad that then can't dishonor the dead for crass partisan purposes.

[faithincowboys]

I hope you're right. This is so disgraceful.

[Always Right]

Koppel needs to read the name of the 80,000 Jordanians who would have died this week if the Iraqi trained and supplied chemical weapon terrorist attack had been successful.

[xp38]

You'd think someone who is jewish and a journo might have gotten a clue from the Daniel Pearl incident.

[Rocko]

Did he read a list of the 9/11 dead?

Just wondering.

[Orange1998]

You have a point. My original thought was....bring it on, I'am never afraid of the facts. I can see Koppel and others spinning this for no good.