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David Bloom R.I.P.
Thursday, March 22, 2007

I was very pleased to see that in the midst of the anniversary of the war that MSNBC devoted a few minutes to the life of David Bloom, the correspondent who was killed during the initial drive to Baghdad. A staggering one-hundred-and-fifty-three journalists have died covering this war, the most since World War Two. Though David died before it descended into chaos, his death is no less tragic. I knew David and his wife briefly; his wife is interviewed in this clip and talks about deep-vein thrombosis. (I met his kids once, but didn't realize until this interview that he had twins, now twelve.) His death made us all aware of DVT -- 300,000 Americans get this condition, his wife says in this exchange. Just the other day, while flying back from L.A., I made a point of doing leg exercises. Do yourself a favor and make this a habit during long plane rides.

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