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]

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.

[jacquej]

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.

[crusty codger]

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.

[onyx]

This has to be the lowest depth
"our enemies within" can possibly go.

[faithincowboys]

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.

[faithincowboys]

We'll see. I actually think they can go lower.

[clintonh8r]

Koppel...looks like Howdy Doody, thinks like Walter Cronkite, acts like Peter Arnett.

[fortunecookie]

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?

[Fintan]

Ol' Ted and ABC must've been in a coma from 1992-2000...

[Rocko]

Alfred E. Newman would be an improvement.

[faithincowboys]

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.

[nopardons]

Have they(the left) no shame? This is outrageous.

[crusty codger]

Anybody have the email address for Ted Kopple?

[nopardons]

I don't,but somebaody here must.

[Gator113]

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

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

(with apologies to MAD & A.E.Neuman)

[arasina]

Perfect!

[isthisnickcool]

Never believe anything that you hear and only believe half of what you see.

Thanks. But I don't believe you:)

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Civil War II. Just around the bend.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Has ABC asked the families if they want their soldier's name broadcast on national news?