Pray for him and his lovely wife Judy.
His wife's name is Lee.
Apparently they were both close friends with David Bloom, and helped comfort his wife when he died in Iraq.
From April 2003:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/73523p-68023c.html
ABC's Bob Woodruff and NBC's David Bloom had a lot in common.
Both were fast-rising correspondents for their networks and both were passionate about covering the war in Iraq while embedded with U.S. troops.
Today, Woodruff is headed back to the U.S. After he learned that Bloom died Sunday from a pulmonary embolism while covering the 3rd Infantry Division, Woodruff immediately left his position with the Marine Expeditionary Force in northern Iraq to help Bloom's family with funeral arrangements. (No date has been set for the services.)
"After I talked on the phone to Dave's wife, Melanie, it was clear to me that I had to come back and help," Woodruff said, "and help my kids and my wife, too, because they equate my life and situation with Dave's."
Woodruff remembers when he first met Bloom at a Larry King roast in Washington.
"Our wives hit it off really big," the ABC News correspondent told the Daily News yesterday from Kuwait City. "My wife said for the first time she met somebody she didn't have to explain anything to."
Woodruff, 42, and Bloom, 39, became friends. They were competitive tennis partners. Each had a set of twin daughters. They took family vacations together.
The ABC correspondent had not spoken with Bloom since February, when both left Kuwait to prepare for their war assignments. But Bloom tried to contact Woodruff through the ABC News assignment desk in New York a few hours before he died.
Bloom left a message: "I just wanted to make sure you're all right — keep your head down."
"That was really quite eerie," Woodruff said. "On the other hand, he was a guy who would reach out."
Woodruff, who has covered military conflicts for ABC in Kosovo and other hot spots, said he will draw on his own experience to help Bloom's family understand what happened.
"I'll try to explain what we went through and what might have been the stresses and strains," he said.
He will also be asking himself if the job is worth the risk.
"Every time you come back [safely] you ascribe it to luck," he said. "I've got four kids, and without question it's the kind of work I love doing. So it is a dilemma."
Meanwhile, NBC officials yesterday could not confirm a BusinessWeek Online report from a correspondent embedded in the same military unit as Bloom, that he complained earlier to military doctors of pain behind his knees. Doctors suspected "deep veinous thrombosis, and advised him to seek proper medical attention," according to writer Frederik Balfour.