My dad, John Francis Hogarty (J.F.H.), was born, like President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (J.F.K) in 1917, a year before Paul Burgess “Red” Fay Jr., President Kennedy's Undersecretary of the Navy, was born.
In 1965, Dad was battling the cancer that would claim his life three years later at age 51. Dad joined his friends in the Most Holy Redeemer Men's Club to trumpet the upcoming “Red Fay Communion Breakfast.” Fay, a
