Rest in Peace, David Bloom

I was saddened to hear about the death of NBC correspondent David Bloom in Iraq. Only 39 years old, he died of a pulmonary embolism that was unrelated to combat. I always turn to NBC whenever I watch the news and David Bloom has been such a familiar face to me for years. He always gave such precise, high-energy reports whether it was from the White House, the OJ trial or from Iraq. Even though I obviously never met Bloom, for the first time I feel like this war has taken somebody that I know.