AP – Rep. John Murtha, a high, gruff-mannered former Marine who became a de facto voice of veterans upon Capitol Hill as well as after an outspoken as well as successful censor of a Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. A Pennsylvania Democrat had been pang from complications from gallbladder operation. He died during Virginia Sanatorium Core in Arlington, Va., with his family during his bedside, a sanatorium pronounced.
