Posted on 05/29/2005 9:39:42 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor
NEW YORK "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau again listed American war dead in his Sunday comic this Memorial Day weekend.
The strip is titled "Operation Iraqi Freedom -- In Memoriam -- Since 4/28/04-- Part 1." Included are the names of hundreds of soldiers. So many, in fact, that the listing will continue next week in "Doonesbury."
The names fill six panels. The first two panels carry a soldier playing taps and a line of soldiers saluting.
Ted Koppel will read the names, and show photos, of 900 American dead on a 45-minute telecast of "Nightline" on Memorial Day.
Last Memorial Day weekend, Trudeau also listed the names of American war dead in his Sunday comic. He told E&P back then that "there is power in seeing actual names instead of numbers. Honor rolls always help deepen our understanding of what has been lost."
"Doonesbury" appears in 1,400 newspapers via Universal Press Syndicate.
The "Nightline" reading has not yet drawn the protests it gained last year, when Sinclair Broadcast Group ordered its eight ABC affiliate stations not to carry the "Nightline" broadcast, which fell on the Friday before Memorial Day. Sinclair said at the time in a statement that "the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."
Even so, that "Nightline" show last year scored nearly 30 percent more viewers than the program did the rest of that week.
This year, a source within the Sinclair organization, who insisted on anonymity, told The Washington Post that the stations have been told by the parent company that they may run the Koppel reading now "because the reading of the names coincides with Memorial Day."
This year Trudeau's giddy because he gets to keep the middle finger flying over a second straight weekend (the same guy who once managed to squeeze the entire text of the U.S. Constitution into a single Sunday page).
-Dan
Garry Trudeau has gotten lazy in his old age.
It's a disgusting sin to mock the dead, and that is all he is doing.
I don't read that stuff, but have a sincere question due to my ignorance. From the story itself, I thought it was quite a tribute to the troops, rather than the other way around. Isn't the purpose of Memorial Day to remember our war dead?
Because this year they are including Afghanistan war deaths. Last year they claimed they were "honoring the troops" but in fact, it was a political hack job intended to discredit President Bush. You could tell because they did not include Afghan war death -- only deaths in Iraq. This year's is less offensive.
I thought listing the war dead was what Memorial Day was about.
The longer this goes on, the nuttier the left becomes.
They're being driven mad by their hatred...
Those names, and the sacrifice of those men and women who fell in battle, and the principles for the United States stands, will endure long after Trudeau, Koppel,and others of their ilk have passed from memory into oblivion.
Let us now pause and remember all of those, from every war since the Revolution, who have paid the highest price to secure the benefits of liberty we enjoy in this greatest of all nations.
He shows a bugler with what appears to be 6 fingers on his left hand. That's pretty weird.
Yeah weird.
I hate seeing idiots like this guy use the names of the fallen heros to try to destroy the morale of thier comrades, abouslutely sickening
The same goes for Ted Koppel--insincere, and an attempt to smear the war effort.
But I have no problem with even this left-handed tribute to the troops if it's taken out of context. These honorable people deserve one second's recognition on TV and newspapers.
OK, flame away.
I said the guy was getting lazy in his old age. Man. I underestimated the situation, didn't I?
LOL!
P.S. I mean AT LEAST one second's recognition.
I agree. Who cares what Koppel and Trudeau intend, just naming the names is fine by me.
That's not even a bugler, that's a trumpeter. Bugles have no valves.
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