When the 25-year-old graduates from the New York City Police Academy on Monday, he’ll be the fourth generation of his family to tack on a patrolman’s shield and keep watch over the Big …
This aspiring cop is about to join the family business.
Of course, that didn’t stop his son from marching down the same path that so many McCarthy boys had walked before. And that’s a point of family pride. The Irish immigrant found work as a chauffeur in New Bedford, NY, before the US Army drafted him in 1917 and sent him back to Europe – this time as a fighting man.He served with an American tank unit in France alongside Lt. Col. George Patton during World War I, his family said. When he came home, the government granted him citizenship in return for his service.
John, Mary and Kevin McCarthy, all three of whom became cops after watching their father work in the NYPD for decades.
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