I’m a little late coming to this discussion, but I can’t quite figure out why conservatives were so upset about the roll call of the lost. If it had been prefaced with something like “what follows is a list of brave Americans who have given their lives for their country and for the liberation of Iraq from a cruel tyranny,” we wouldn’t have minded, would we? No preface was given, of course; but we could still read that meaning into the show–whatever Koppel’s intentions were.