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.

[Miss Marple]

Let's see. Are they going to honor those who were killed in accidents? No. Are they going to honor those killed in Afghanistan? No. Are they going to honor those killed in training accidents stateside? No.

JUST those KIA in Iraq, and also, THEY ARE GOING TO PUT IT ON THE JUMBOTRON IN TIMES SQUARE.

If I were the survivor of one who had fallen, I would have a retraining order filed so fast that their attorneys wouldn't know what to do. This is crass.

WHO is going to watch this? I doubt many relatives will. It is simply a propoganda ploy. Bah!

Oh, and I will bet that they play mournful dirge music, rather than anything patriotic.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

You could not be more wrong. Our soldiers are still dying over there. What will ABC do when another soldier dies after Ted reads the list? Do it again? And again? Your heart might be in the right place, but the time to memorialize our fallen is after the fighting is over, all of our wounded are home and the enemy is at our feet with a leash around his neck.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

We should start calling him Tikrit Ted.

I like that. May I use it?

[crusty codger]

I am offended!

[TBall]

Maybe he should first read the list of all the dead from 911.

[armymarinedad]

As these service members deserve better than this could someone please post the sponsors of night line so we will know who to contact and inform them if their commercials are run during this show they will be boycotted.

[Conservababe]

It is all about ratings. Poor Ted is in the same boat as Jennings, who was forced to trash Kerry. LOL

[BushisTheMan]

I have no problem honoring the fallen. However, I'm sure someone who really cares for the troops would be better at this job than Koppel.

This moves Koppel to the top of Kristin's list of bad reporters in my book.

[faithincowboys]

Oh, man I hate the media. One million Koppels don't compare to one GI.

[drq]

Here is a list of the 911 dead Ted should read.

As of the most recent update,

10/11/2003 1:39:12 PM:

Confirmed dead - 2948

- Reported Dead: 25

- Reported Missing: 25

- TOTAL: 2998

List of Sept 11 victims

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Frank, most of these guys are cowards who never could stand for anything decent. They hate God, and they hate anything that hints of honor or duty. Sure, they might not run from a bar fight, but put them in a place that demands their life be put on the line and it's a different story.

If we could see what these guys really look like inside, in their soul, I'm sure it would make us sick.

[Peter Libra]

'Lo there fic. Back are you? Ok with me. Koppel born in Liverpool, England, during the blitz period- 1940. Parents fled Herr Adolf and his hateful lads in the 1930's in Germany. Given refugee status in UK. Guess old Teddy boy did not object to lots of hitherto peaceful people dying to slay the aforesaid Adolf.

I guess people dying to slay the hateful regime in Iraq is wrong- according to his thinly veiled agenda. People here have it right. The man is a shameless political hack- 'er sorry Teddy.

[Mo1]

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

The sad part is .. they will still sink even lower

[faithincowboys]

Koppel is the typical Socialist. He rightly hated German fascism, but was an apologist for Soviet tyranny. These people are such jerks. They are so antiAmerican, it's shocking!!

[PogySailor]

Thus ended the campaign to capture Okinawa, which now became a giant air and naval base destined to play a major role in the planned invasion of Japan. British observers spoke of the Battle for Okinawa as "... the most audacious and complex enterprise ... yet undertaken by the American Amphibious Forces... more ships were used, more troops put ashore, more supplies transported, more bombs dropped, more naval guns fired against shore targets" than any other operation in the Pacific.

But not without a severe price for both sides. Thirty-four allied ships and craft of all types had been sunk, mostly by kamikazes, and 368 ships and craft damaged. The fleet had lost 763 aircraft. Over 4,900 sailors and 3,443 Marines were killed or missing in action and 4,824 Sailors and 16,017 Marines were wounded, making this the naval services' most costly campaign of World War II. Army casualties were 7,613 killed or missing and 31,807 wounded or injured. There were also more than 26,000 non-battle casualties.

Japanese losses were enormous: 107,539 killed and 23,764 sealed in caves or buried by the Japanese themselves; 10,755 captured or surrendered. On both sides, nearly 170,000 died, over half were civilians. The Japanese lost 7,830 aircraft and 16 combat ships.

Campaign for Okinawa

This ONE campaign that lasted from mid-March 1944 to July 2, 1944 cost us 1000 times more than the last year in Iraq. I can't even imagine how todays media would have reported this.

[MistrX]

All those hair care products have gone to Ted's brain.

[been_lurking]

I also wonder if Ted's list will include the 13 civilian employees from my company that have been killed in Iraq, or any of the U.S. contractors and aid workers for that matter?

All were volunteers. All knew what they were getting themselves into, and all chose to serve a cause bigger than themselves.

Will ABC survive this disgrace?

[faithincowboys]

Well, just imagine them creating the conditons to where the Battan Death march would be the Baltimore Death March. We would have lost and America would have been on the ashheap of history. Do you think Germany and Japan would have paid to rebuild us? I don't think so!!!

[Mo1]

This was brought to my attention

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[onyx]

The sad part is .. they will still sink even lower





I know it.
But this is unconscionable.