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The Fighting Hogans Only 17 days after President Franklin D. Roosevelt told America there had been a “sneak attack” on Hawaii’s Hickam Field by the Japanese Empire, William Francis Hogan, my uncle, (image right) became one of America’s fighting men. His first full day in the U.S. Navy was on Christmas Day 1941. Uncle Bill made the ultimate sacrifice (His name is inscribed in the Yonkers, N.Y

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Remembering Shamus O'Brien The crowds were enormous. Friends and admirers and entire families arrived at Flynn Memorial Home on Ludlow Street in Yonkers, N.Y., afternoons and evenings for three days to pay tribute to Michael Joseph Hogan, better known as Shamus O'Brien (image left), the alias he used in the boxing ring throughout his long and illustrious career. A rugged, battle-scarred

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