NYFD Battalion Chief John Moran (Freeper BCM) Perishes In World Trade Center

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[AppyPappy]

The bone-chilling wail of bagpipe playing "Amazing Grace" echoed through a Queens church yesterday as yet another fallen firefighter from the World Trade Center tragedy was memorialized in death.

It was yet another day — of many more to come — for Masses and memorial services for both heroic rescue workers and innocent civilians lost in the flames and collapsing towers.

At the memorial Mass for 49th Battalion Chief John Moran, his younger brother, Firefighter Michael Moran of Ladder 3, recalled how he spoke to his brother by cell phone after the second plane crashed into the Trade Center.

"I told him to be careful," the younger Moran told mourners, including his brother's wife, Kim, and two sons, Ryan, 7, and Dylan, 4. "I didn't see him there that day, but now I see him all the time."

The memorial Mass at St. Francis de Sales Church in Belle Harbor, Queens, was conducted by the fallen firefighter's uncle, Father Paul Moran, who called his 42-year-old nephew's last assignment a "mission of love, to save life, not destroy it."

Mayor Giuliani called for a standing ovation for the 20-year fire veteran, who held a law degree from Fordham University and was injured in the Father's Day explosion at an Astoria hardware store that killed three firefighters.

The mayor said while Moran's two young sons may not fully comprehend all that's happened, "The thing I want them to understand for their entire life is that their father is a great man."

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It is believed that John Moran is BMC. We have a picture from a freep Posted Here. Here is his Fire Dept Memorial http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/f dny/html/memorial/wtc/moran_jo hn_bc_bat049.html. Here is a google search of his postsHere

I found these:

To: ELS

This was the best time I've ever had in the pouring rain! I was shouting so hard that I can hardly speak today. While the chants were great and certainly got people's attention, I personally loved it when we sang "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America." I think that really stopped people in their tracks (and completely confounded the liberals).

32 Posted on 11/27/2000 15:45:04 PST by BCM
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After the Bush victory:

To: AndrewC

My fellow Freepers, who sustained me through all the insanity.

24 Posted on 11/27/2000 19:20:44 PST by BCM
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BTW I found this one as well:

To: bcjohnson

God bless you, you will be missed.

4 Posted on 01/03/2000 22:37:18 PST by BCM

John 15
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

[Texaggie79]

God truly has a special place for heros such as you. God bless your soul BCM.

[cibco]

God bless...

[Topaz]

Thanks for this post, and God bless Battalion Chief John Moran.

[Yankee]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who have died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."--General George S. Patton, Jr.

To BCM and Chief Negotiator. Rest peacefully, good souls.

[TLBSHOW]

Thank you for this wonderful tribute to a fallen FReeper and hero to America. My prayers for his family and friends.
TLBSHOW

"We will smoke them out of their holes,". "We'll get them running and we'll bring them to justice." George W. Bush

[Askel5]

Thanks for the work you put into this post.

May he rest in peace.

[be-baw]

We spend so much time here both arguing amongst ourselves and reaffirming each other's strongly-held convictions. When it gets to the end for one or more of us, however, all that other stuff seems so trivial. We find ourselves grieving over folks we didn't really know very well--and wishing so badly that we had known them better.

May God hold BCM and Chief Negotiator and all the others close to his breast. May we all remain humble and in His service and in the service of our Free Republic.

God bless you all. God bless America.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Two CHIEFS in one day."

Both Heros, both Patriots
May God Welcome them both Home and comfort their families.

[Askel5]

As a Catholic educated at Fordham, he might understand perfectly well the need for an examination of conscience to ascertain where we might have made mistakes that indeed contributed to this tragedy and how we might be proceed in an absolutely moral fashion.

It can be done without "blaming" or "hating" America.

[AKA Elena]

Ah, if ever we are reassured of a PLACE in His PLACE, this is it.

THERE is no sacrifice greater than that of he who gives his life for his friend.

BCM, you are that epitomized Promise of a new life with Him!

May your wife, your babies and all who were in your mortal life ... carry that Assurance and that Blessing ... all the days of their lives, until you are all together again, in Heaven.

[caddie]

God Bless BCM and his family. May he Rest in Peace.

[bootyist-monk]

Prayerful bump for a true American hero.

[HalfIrish]

fyi

[afraidfortherepublic]

I'll remember him and his family in my prayers. Surely he is with the Lord in Paradise this day. He was a brave man.

[Lurker]

Thanks Jim.

L

[F.J. Mitchell]

BCM, another Freeper gone-we are a big family, you can't throw a dart at America without hitting at least one of us. Every day we are reminded of just what an elite group we have the privilige of being members of. God bless BCM, his loved ones and friends. May he rest in peace-a hero who gave his last full measure.

[AKA Elena]

They are heros, in DEED! God bless the fallen and protect the standing ...

You have said the most and perhaps the best of all! Thank you for allowing me to copy and repeat it once more!

[retrokitten]

May God welcome them speedily into Heaven. May bring He comfort to thier family and friends.

God bless all memebers of our Free Republic family.

God bless America.

[michigander]

We won't forget!

[Norb2569]

Rest in Peace, BMC. You are a true American hero!

We will NOT forget!

Norb