In a conscious echo of a famous, Vietnam War-era issue of Life magazine, the ABC News program "Nightline" will broadcast Friday night the names and faces of every member of the armed forces killed in action in Iraq.

Ted Koppel will deliver a brief introduction before reading the more than 530 names, as photographs and captions with the ages and hometowns of the dead appear on the screen.

Leroy Sievers, an executive producer of "Nightline," said that his inspiration for the program was a June 1969 Life issue which showed photos of men killed during a week in Vietnam.

Although that issue is now remembered as a crystallizing moment for opposition to the Vietnam War, Sievers denied the program was making any political statement.