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Nbadan
05-24-2005, 04:20 PM
Ted Koppel to Read Names of Over 900 Servicemen and Women Killed in Iraq, Afghanistan in Memorial Day Broadcast

One year since honoring the American service men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ted Koppel and ABC News "Nightline" will again pay tribute to the fallen by devoting an extended broadcast to reading the names and showing the photographs of more than 900 service members who have been killed in those countries over the last year.

Titled "The Fallen," the special "Nightline" broadcast will air Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2005, at 11:35 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network. ABC News Radio will air excerpts of the program.

Last year on April 30, 2004, "Nightline" honored the 721 service men and women killed in action and in non-hostile situations in Iraq since the start of the war there. Less than a month later on May 26, 2004, the program paid tribute to the122 service members killed in the war on terror since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. Monday's program will honor those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and whose names have been released by the Defense Department since last year's broadcasts.

ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=786279&page=1)

In one of the worst documented cases of Administration broadcast favoratism, I wonder if Republican-controlled Sinclair broadcasting will run this go round of Nightline honoring our war dead.