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 | | Hackett joined the Marines in 1982, when he was a student at Case Western University, which was also where he met his wife, a psychologist by training. |
 | | Hackett looked at it as “a way to serve,” and also “a way to travel, and to gain self-confidence and self-discipline.” In all, he’d served 16 years in the Marines, including three years of active duty, by the time he was honorably discharged in 1999. |
 | | Hackett was staunchly opposed to the invasion of Iraq: “We set a precedent after 227 years that we were going to invade a country that had not attacked us first,” he told me. Yet when the war began, he found it hard to sit on the sidelines. |
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