Bloom seemed to have a premonition of his own death

Washington Post
Hours before his death, NBC correspondent David Bloom wrote to his wife and said if in the future “you’re talking about my last days,” she and their three daughters should know that “he gave every ounce of his being not for himself but for those who he cared about most, God and his family… You cannot know now whether you will look back on it with tears, heartbreak and a sense of anguish and regret over what might have been.” Howard Kurtz writes of Wednesday’s funeral: “The tributes to David Bloom’s life and journalistic exploits were moving, but what left the packed pews in stunned silence was [that] final e-mail to his wife.”
> Rev. Father Matthew McGinness said at the service that Bloom told him the night before he left for Kuwait City that he was prepared to face death. (New York Daily News)
> “In this grand cathedral,” writes Andrea Peyser, “we learned what made this humble guy, a man who referred to everyone, politician and general, as ‘Buddy.'” (New York Post)