Five years ago today - David Bloom died in Iraq

[dchill]

I still miss his great reporting.

The NBC journalist's death was possibly caused by the hours he spent reporting cramped in an Army vehicle -- just another way war kills...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloom

[rwheeler31]

1. Thank you for the reminder. We have put up with five

years of this crap, and lost so many good people.

[dchill]

2. Yes, and I wish I could say what I wish would happen...

to the people involved whom I wish I could name. And I wish I were above wishing it. But I'm not.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. David Bloom was one of the good ones...

I still have recordings of his reporting from lower Manhattan on 9/12/01. Thanks for remembering this.:thumbsup:

[dchill]

4. It hit me while watching the MLK special on CNN...

they said King was 39 when he died, and I remembered that Bloom was, too, and that it had happened in April. So I Googled it, and it turned out to be 5 yrs ago today.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Soledad was Bloom's co-host on the weekend Today show...

...tonight's CNN special on Dr King was very well done by her. I stopped watching CNN's morning show when they axed her in favor of a Faux News flunkie. She was pulled only a week after her interview of Tony Snow (this is my YouTube entry featuring the interview):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zBld8hDadz0

[dchill]

7. "Soledad was Bloom's co-host..."

That could have been a subconscious trigger, too. I remember that interview, too.

[Rageneau]

5. That was back in the "HOO-AH!" days, when Bush was a war hero,

[dchill]

8. Yes, but Bloom was always a straight reporter.

Even though he was "embedded."