“So when you’re missing me as I am missing you, remember to say a prayer for all the other boys and girls who are missing their mommies and daddies, too,” Nicole Bloom said he told them. They can still remember his last message to them. “He would carry the three of us up the staircase with a twin under each arm and me on his shoulders,” Ava Bloom said. While he was known for a boyish enthusiasm that carried him through momentous reporting assignments like the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq, his girls remember him as a loving and devoted father. The twins were 9 when he died and Ava Bloom was 3, and they cherish the short time they were able to spend with their doting dad. His widow, Melanie, has since become a leading advocate in raising awareness about DVT, as the clot in Bloom’s leg was likely brought on by spending long days and nights cramped inside armored vehicles. TODAYīloom was 39 when he died on April 6, 2003, when a blood clot in his leg traveled to an artery in his lungs to cause a fatal pulmonary embolism, as a result of a condition known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT). “After he passed, I had like recurring dreams that he was coming back down the street in that town car and he was coming home again.” David Bloom's twin daughters, Christine and Nicole Bloom, and his youngest daughter, Ava Bloom, spoke with Peter Alexander about their father's legacy. “He hugged us all goodbye, and then he got in his black town car and drove down the street. “We were all huddled in our in front entryway of our house and we all held hands in a circle and said the Our Father,” Christine Bloom said. The girls shared the last time they saw their father in an interview with NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander on "TODAY" to mark the 20th anniversary of Bloom’s death.
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