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TED KOPPEL TO READ LIST OF IRAQ WAR DEAD DURING ABCNEWS SPECIAL
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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.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcnews; cantseepastmybias; closeminded; didntwatch; fifthcolumn; freeperbias; ignorant; mediabias; mindlessrant; tedkrapple; uninformed
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To: Always Right
What war effort could be sustained if the media of the country at war constantly brought up the price of the war and never once tried to buck up the national morale? This is so sickening.
To: ladyinred
Alas, ladyinred, you are probably right. I wouldn't know, however, because I work from home, and never speak to liberals about anything.
As soon as I realize someone is a liberal, they go on my "polite hello, but nothing more" list.
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posted on
04/27/2004 3:59:10 PM PDT
by
jacquej
To: isthisnickcool
The only show I watch on ABC is NYPD Blues. Never watch their News and the only one's who do are the sheeple that still haven't accepted the concept of Never believe anything that you hear and only believe half of what you see.
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posted on
04/27/2004 3:59:19 PM PDT
by
crusty codger
(Arrogance often covers a minimum of intelligence)
To: Mo1; faithincowboys
This has to be the lowest depth
"our enemies within" can possibly go.
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posted on
04/27/2004 3:59:34 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold)
To: Rocko
I really really doubt it. Wasn't the media's number 1 priority vis a vis 9-11 to sanitize it. We never saw the people jumping out of the buildings. They didn't show us how really awful 9-11 was.
To: onyx
We'll see. I actually think they can go lower.
To: faithincowboys
Koppel...looks like Howdy Doody, thinks like Walter Cronkite, acts like Peter Arnett.
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:00:26 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Vietnam veteran against John Kerry, proud to be a "crook" and a "liar.")
To: faithincowboys
Wow, what a traitor.
Sadly, there is no list for Ted to read of the names of the Kurdish gas attack victims or of the names of the many thousands of bodies in the mass graves of Iraq or of the Afghan victims of the Taliban, many of them women who 'dishonored' their families or were spotted by the special virtue police.
Ted, would you have the courage to read these names?
To: faithincowboys
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Ol' Ted and ABC must've been in a coma from 1992-2000... |
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:04:05 PM PDT
by
Fintan
(© 1950)
To: Fintan
Alfred E. Newman would be an improvement.
70
posted on
04/27/2004 4:05:25 PM PDT
by
Rocko
(Michael Moore: "Dude, I'm a hypocrite.")
To: Fintan
Oh, that's when they were in full CBA (Cover Bubba's A$$) mode.
Really disgraceful!
How hope America is watching this and drawing the appropriate conclusions.
To: Mo1
Have they(the left) no shame? This is outrageous.
To: nopardons
Anybody have the email address for Ted Kopple?
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:09:51 PM PDT
by
crusty codger
(Arrogance often covers a minimum of intelligence)
To: crusty codger
I don't,but somebaody here must.
To: Mo1
In the midst of a war it reeks of political opportunism.
BINGO
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
75
posted on
04/27/2004 4:12:24 PM PDT
by
Gator113
To: faithincowboys
(with apologies to MAD & A.E.Neuman)
To: mewzilla
Perfect!
77
posted on
04/27/2004 4:16:16 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: crusty codger
Never believe anything that you hear and only believe half of what you see.
Thanks. But I don't believe you:)
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:17:34 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(I'm isthisnickcool, and I approved this post!)
To: faithincowboys
Civil War II. Just around the bend.
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:18:29 PM PDT
by
O.C. - Old Cracker
(When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
To: faithincowboys
Has ABC asked the families if they want their soldier's name broadcast on national news?
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posted on
04/27/2004 4:19:55 PM PDT
by
O.C. - Old Cracker
(When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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