ABC NEWS: Desperately searching for a military funeral on inauguration day.

Hey, if they want to show a casualty of the Bush Administration, they could always put on Dan Rather’s reputation. Shortly to be followed by their own, at this rate . . . . (Via Capt. Ed, who has further comments).

UPDATE: Major John Tammes emails from Bagram:

Perhaps all of us serving in the armed forces should send a statement to ABC saying something along the lines of “in case I should be killed in action, you are hereby requested to come nowhere near my funeral, and also requested to not make political hay out of it either.” I guess I am not at risk, since getting killed in Afghanistan is not quite the “balance” they are looking for.

Indeed.