The Funeral Service of David Bloom

Yahoo News - NY Post -- HOURS before he was to die in Iraq, David Bloom had a kind of premonition.

The sight of battle had changed him, hardened him. The smell of death rattled the perpetually upbeat NBC correspondent in ways he never foresaw.

He worried about the safety of his crew, about the troops with whom he traveled. He missed his wife and three daughters, desperately. And though he was in grave discomfort, suffering from the cold and from fierce leg pain brought on by days and nights he spent sleeping bent in two, in a tank, David Bloom did not think of himself.

On MSNBC, the first real view of what was happening was him leaning back on an armored vehicle racing through the desert surrounded by tanks and APC's. That may have led to my favoring MSNBC the first days of the war. From all reports he was a good guy and a great hard-working television journalist.