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Intangible fruits of citizenship

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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I walked out of City Hall yesterday morning and thought

about all the things I had to do, number one being to vote in the Democratic

primary. The vote is one of the often unappreciated gifts that is conferred on

citizens.

Then it struck me that Pfc. Luis Moreno, a Bronx teenager who was killed in

January guarding a gas station in Baghdad, will never be able to vote,...

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