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Better mutiny than 'suicide'

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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'I'm proud of my son," said Renee Shealey of her

23-year-old son Scott, one of 18 soldiers who defied orders last week to go on

what the soldiers termed a "suicide mission," in Iraq.

She and her husband Ricky live in tiny Quinton, Ala., and they have been

thrust into the blinding headlights of the media over their son's decision.

But like most of the families of...

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