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NYFD Battalion Chief John Moran (Freeper BCM) Perishes In World Trade Center
NY Daily News ^

Posted on 10/04/2001 1:22:45 PM PDT by 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."


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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 7thanniversary; 911; 91101; 911archives; bcm; bmc; fdny; johnmoran; wtc
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To: AppyPappy
I am in tears,but while there are tears, there's also pride and knowledge that he is a hero to those that knew him and to those that only know of him. God Bless this brave, patriotic American. God Bless his family and friends...
161 posted on 10/04/2001 3:40:04 PM PDT by cowgirlcutie
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To: AppyPappy
A bump and a prayer for a man that makes Americans proud.
162 posted on 10/04/2001 3:40:06 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Norb2569,AppyPappy

163 posted on 10/04/2001 3:40:53 PM PDT by First_Salute
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To: AppyPappy
R.I.P.


164 posted on 10/04/2001 3:45:35 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: AppyPappy
As I mourn his death, I am unspeakably proud that a man of such courage would see fit to keep company with us. He died a national hero. If I can do as much with my life as he did with his death, I will have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
165 posted on 10/04/2001 3:50:05 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: AppyPappy,To All
The other Chief lost today:
"If the Army and the Navy ever looked on heaven's scene,
they would find the streets are guarded by United States MARINES!"
CHIEF negotiator dies in east Houston house fire
One more Brother has been called to serve again in a Higher command.
166 posted on 10/04/2001 3:57:03 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: AppyPappy
Oh, my heart is broken. But I'm so proud to be a part of something this hero was a part of.
167 posted on 10/04/2001 4:01:01 PM PDT by DallasDeb
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To: AppyPappy
6,500 Americans were murdered by the Barbarians that day.

Statiscally, that is 1 out of every 40,000 Americans.

According to statistics, there are 60,000 Free Republic posters.

With the 2 confirmed dead Freepers amongst the 6,500 casaulties that horrible day, it is just about exactly what the law of averages would dictate.

168 posted on 10/04/2001 4:05:12 PM PDT by bulldog905
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To: AppyPappy
Oh dear Lord what a shame. May the Lord take him up in His arms. And may BCM rest in peace. Prayers for his family.
169 posted on 10/04/2001 4:06:47 PM PDT by Teacup
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To: AppyPappy
VERY sad news :-(
170 posted on 10/04/2001 4:07:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: AppyPappy
Thanks for the post AP. God bless the family! Knowing he was one of us only makes his passing more painful.
171 posted on 10/04/2001 4:09:50 PM PDT by Patriotic Rich
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To: Mercuria
bump
172 posted on 10/04/2001 4:10:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Dog
Thanks for the ping, Dog. As I was telling a freeper from New Jeresy today. Who knows how many freepers we may have lost because of these attacks. Many may have been daily lurkers, who read FR at work, who came to Free Republic to read the news. We may never know. God Bless them all.
173 posted on 10/04/2001 4:11:51 PM PDT by Teacup
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To: AppyPappy
May he go with God.What a fine man, and so brave.I hope the NYC Freepers were all able to enjoy his company and comradeship, and if possible, hope that his family can get a prinout of this thread to read all the condolensces.

May God Bless his family.

174 posted on 10/04/2001 4:26:24 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Deb
You wonder what John would have responded to all the people posting "blame America" crap on FR?

I am starting to take all this and those jerks personaly. It used to be an altruistic fuzzy intuition that animated me, now each time I will see a peace nick I won't rest.

175 posted on 10/04/2001 4:29:54 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: BCM, Chief Negotiator
Go With God. Rest In Peace. And know that you will be invoked and remembered on the day of victory over these forces of barbarian evil.
176 posted on 10/04/2001 4:33:18 PM PDT by The Kitten
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To: Jim Robinson
Is someone working on the FR Memorial Wall?
177 posted on 10/04/2001 4:34:48 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: AppyPappy
Ladder 3 lost fully half of its entire complement Sep 11. Twelve men died. I walk by their firehouse on 13th St every day. Sad. The candles are still burning on the sidewalk. The apartment building/NYU dorm across the street still has banners of condolence in all the windows.
178 posted on 10/04/2001 4:36:52 PM PDT by Tenega
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To: AppyPappy
I was that which others did not want to be. I went where others feared to go, and did what others failed to do.

I asked nothing from those who gave nothing, and reluctantly accepted the fact of eternal rest should I fall.

I have seen the face of terror and felt the stinging cold of fear. I have loved, cried, suffered, and hoped, but most of all, I have lived times others would say were "best forgotten".

At least some day I will be able to say that I was proud of what I was - A Firefighter"

<Rest in Peace John Moran

179 posted on 10/04/2001 4:40:48 PM PDT by Species8472
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To: Tenega
We walked by that firehouse, too. My wife cried.

Say a prayer for Manny at Ladder Five. Nice kid. He used to tease my daughter when we walked by. Memorial service is later this week.

BCM and I had a wonderful exchange in a thread my first month posting on FR. He made me feel at home.

180 posted on 10/04/2001 4:44:04 PM PDT by lavrenti
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