Paying Tribute

If you haven't yet read Taking Chance Home, the first person account of one Marine escorting the remains of another marine back to Wyoming, read it now.

Meanwhile Sinclair Broadcast Group has pre-empted tonight's Nightline "The Fallen" because it "appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."

From CNN:
According to campaign finance records, four of Sinclair's top executives each have given the maximum campaign contribution of $2,000 to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign ... The executives have not given any donations to the campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, the records showed. "

Hmm - motivated by a political agenda you say...

Sinclair continues...

"Mr. Koppel and 'Nightline' are hiding behind this so-called tribute in an effort to highlight only one aspect of the war effort and in doing so to influence public opinion against the military action in Iraq,"

So-called tribute? Reading the names of the dead will undermine the war? Come again? By that logic - The Wall - probably one of the most moving memorials I ever visited - is downright unpatriotic. Gotcha. Thanks for protecting the public interest. Now fuck off.