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COMING FULL CIRCLE

By Alan Grant

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Two days after winning the shot put at the Olympic track and field trials, Reese Hoffa was handed his new team uniform. As he ran his fingers across the "USA," the jokester who once competed in a Mexican wrestling mask turned somber as his thoughts went to brother Chris, a Marine on his fifth tour in Iraq. "He's serving our country," Hoffa says. "And by wearing this jersey, I feel like I am too." It was a sudden but understandable turn of emotion for Hoffa, who in his 30 years has learned the ...

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