The ABC-affiliate based in Pennsacola, Florida also serves much of South Alabama and is among the affiliates that have been ordered not to air tonight’s Nightline program. Howard Johnson Sr. of Mobile had some words about that,

The father of a soldier from Mobile who was killed in Iraq said he believes the program should be televised in every city. “I think those heroes gave their lives in such valiant effort for such a good cause, and the world should know who they are,” said Howard Johnson Sr., whose 21-year-old son — Army Pfc. Howard Johnson II — was killed in March 2003 when his convoy was ambushed in southern Iraq.

Johnson said the broadcast would inform viewers that “this is not a cheap war.”

“There is no way you can begin to put a dollar value on the lives that have been given for this,” he said. The TV program “will give everybody an opportunity to at least see the young men and women who gave their lives in order for America to continue to be the free country that we proclaim her to be.”

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