I can certainly understand the relatively low ratings for the show, Larry. I have to admit that I didn't watch it, not because of lack of respect for those who have been killed, but because first, I have been aware all along (I regularly watch The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, which ends most programs by showing, in silence, photos of those killed in Iraq when their death is confirmed and photos become available), and second, watching a show consisting of the recitation of some 725 names was not something my wife and I cared to do just before going to bed. I suspect that we were not the only ones.

As I said, I am not familiar with SBG because they don't broadcast in the Pacific Northwest. But whatever their reasons for not airing that particular edition of Nightline, others on both sides have been trying to make political hay out of it.

Don Firth