The Wounded
A tragic look at the wounded soldiers coming into and out of the Baghdad hospital. Meanwhile, the president is cutting veterans' benfits.
These men and women who come home broken, mentally and physically, and are often quickly forgotten are real heroes and deserve everything our government can possibly do for them.
The Dead
A description of this coming Friday's program, from Nightline's April 27 Daily Email.
But we realized that we seemed to just be giving numbers. So many killed in this incident, so many more in that attack. Whether you agree with the war or not, these men and women are serving, are putting their lives on the line, in our names. We think it is important to remember that those who have paid the ultimate price all have faces, and names, and loved ones. We thought about doing this on Memorial Day, but that?s a time when most media outlets do stories about the military, and they are generally lost in the holiday crush of picnics and all. We didn?t want this broadcast to get lost. Honestly, I don?t know if people will watch this for thirty seconds, or ten minutes, or at all. That?s not the point. We think this is important. These men and women have earned nothing less.
One point, we are not going to include those killed in non-hostile incidents. There?s no disrespect meant here, we just don?t have enough time in this one broadcast. But they are no less deserving of our thoughts. I hope that you will join us for at least part of ?The Fallen? on Friday.
I'll be watching.