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RIP, John Murtha dies at 77.
US Rep, Viet Nam Vet and a dear friend. thanks Jack, for all you did.
Drifter... Longtime U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., died Monday afternoon in a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. He was 77. Murtha The 77-year-old Johnstown Democrat had been in the intensive care unit of Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., for several days. Spokesman Matt Mazonkey said Murtha was hospitalized after suffering complications from surgery to remove his gallbladder late last month. Murtha was elected in 1974 and had been serving as the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. He was a Marine and the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the House of Representatives. |
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