A Few Of FR's Finest....Every Day.....09-11-03....Where Were You? Never Forget 9-11-01

dansangel | 9-11-03 | dansangel

[dansangel]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

On Mondays please visit us to see photos of A FEW OF FR'S VETERANS AND ACTIVE MILITARY

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~ Billie, dansangel, dutchess, Mama_Bear, Aquamarine ~

~ ~ ~Where Were You?~ ~ ~

Where were you
when the sky rained down
liquid fire and lost souls;
when the air billowed poison,
when sirens wailed
and cries echoed urgently and painfully?
Never forget....

Where were you
when, with a thunderous roar,
monsters of steel and glass
crumbled to the earth
belching black gaseous clouds
as thick and as dark as satan's cloak?
Never forget....

Where were you
when eerie silence fell like
winter's first snowfall;
when voices and spirits were
stilled forever in
unadorned and involuntary graves?
Never forget....

Where were you
when satan's children laughed
and danced in streets of candy
while families mourned
eternal emptiness, longing for
just one last chance to say, "I love you?"
Never forget....

© 2003 ~dansangel~





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God Bless Our Military

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Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Dansangel; Dutchess; Mama_Bear; Aquamarine and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation’s leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.

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We ask Lord, that You guide the leaders of our great country in their hour of decision. The burden that has been placed on their shoulders is overwhelming. We ask that with Your infinite wisdom You guide them gently to the right decisions.

Please give us the strength, Lord, to get through each difficult and devastating day that faces each of us and our country. Protect and guide our Military that are now being called to duty, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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OhioWfan........................son mystery-ak..........son, husband Gogrammy................grandson Inspectorette...................son Blessed American..........nephew Slip18..........................nephew anniegetyourgun...........nephew Pippin....niece,nephew,loved one Doug from Upland......son-in-law weldgophardline.....brotherinlaw Future Snake Eater..........cousin WaterDragon..son-in-law,grandson BeforeISleep...................son The Mayor........................niece LadyX.........................grandson fawn796.....................nephew ValerieUSA................2 sons Warrior Nurse...........active duty SK1 Thurman...........active duty David Osborne.........active duty fc2tomschermuly......active duty bkwells..................activve duty LongCut..................active duty Trish.......................active duty StarCMC......................brother TexKat...................son and stepson Atomic Conspiracy..half-brother, niece, nephew

Maigrey................cousin ladtx....................2 sons Mama_Bear...........2 nephews gator girl............husband severa................husband MozartLover......son, nephew LBGA........................son SpookBrat...........nephew Himyar.....................son boxerblues............2 sons the piper...................son sheeza...............husband kemathen7...........husband Diver Dave................niece deadhead................cousin JimRobinson.....2 nephews Armymarinemom.....3 sons Consort..2 daughters,son-in-law Darheel..................niece dixie sass.............nephew BeAllYouCanBe.........son AgThorn...............2 sons homeschoolmama.......nephew kneezles.................son kimmie7...............brother Tiffee4Bob.............boyfriend Explorer89............brother

[Calpernia]

Wow. That looks like my photo that I took from Liberty State Park:

From my site: http://www.goexcelglobal.com/images/80_WTClight.jpg

[dansangel]

Thank you for your thoughts and very kind compliments, (((((jwfiv))))))

It is a day of emotions run rampant. I'm so glad to be away from work and home, where I can be "me."

[Feiny]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/539734/posts

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

Posted on 10/04/2001 1:22 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.

[dansangel]

(((((((Julie)))))))

Thank you for sharing that graphic with us. I agree - the military needs our prayers and our support now more than ever.

[Feiny]

John Moran
Battalion Chief
Battalion 49
Memorial Service was held
on September 28, 2001

[dansangel]

(((((((Amy)))))))))

Thank you for sharing those moving pictures. That is such a beautiful memorial. You are so fortunate to have something like that close by.

[dansangel]

Thank you for the compliment ((((((Meg))))))

[dansangel]

I love that graphic, (((((((Colleen)))))

I have it on my training computer at work. I had heard that they are going to light those beams again tonight - is that true?

[Diver Dave]

dansy, you've done an outstanding job with this presentation.

Thanks to you and to everyone who has contributed today.

Not sure if it's proper etiquette, but our flag is at half-staff today.

[dansangel]

Thank you (((((feinie))))) for bringing that to our attention. I had no idea. I thought our "only" loss was Barbara Olson. This gives me chill-bumps.

[dixie sass]

Amen. I heard prayers to GOD this morning from the various sites. At least sometimes, the people in government remember...

[dansangel]

Thank you ((((((Diver Dave)))))))

If not proper etiquette, I am sure that no one will take offense.

Have a blessed day.

[dansangel]

But rather, love your enemies and do good to them,
and lend expecting nothing back;
then your reward will be great
and you will be children of the Most High,
for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful.

Thank you ((((((Salvation))))))))

We must be reminded from time to time that the words of the Gospel are timeless and apply to every situation in our lives. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[MEG33]

Thank you for the remembrance of BCM,Battalion Chief Moran.I was only a lurker on 9/11 but I remember the sorrow and many posts about him.May God be with all the families and friends today and everyday.

[dansangel]

((((((TexasCowboy))))))

Thank you for posting the very meaningful graphic and link. Be sure to have a safe and blessed day.

[Feiny]

Nope John is actually the older brother of Mike Moran (the firefighter who told OBL to kiss his royal Irish Arse).

His father in law logged onto FR and saw the tributes....he was deeply touched.

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Barbara Olson, American Patriot
By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 12, 2001

THE HIJACKERS pushed the passengers to the back of the plane out of Dulles Airport, Barbara Olson managed to make two final calls on her cell phone. She called her husband, Ted, the Solicitor General of the United States. She told him to call the FBI, her plane was being hijacked.

Moments later, evidently while still on the line with her husband, the plane plunged into the Pentagon. Barbara must have had to place the call furtively, and it can’t have been easy to make the call, because of the terrorists as well as the terror. It was a courageous act.

The Washington Post has run an odd report claiming the hijackers ordered passengers with cell phones to call their loved ones to say they were about to die.Maybe that’s true.

The facts are still coming out about large chunks of this story.But I can’t help being suspicious. That story doesn’t really hang together.

If 64 passengers knew they had just been recruited for a suicide mission, it’s hard to figure how the hijackers could have held them off with box-cutters.It’s also hard to imagine hijackers intent on plunging into the Pentagon bothering with the courtesy of farewell phone calls. And if they all were about to die anyway, it’s not clear why Barbara Olson would have asked Ted for advice about what she should tell the pilot to do – something that has been authoritatively reported.

We haven’t heard of other cell calls, though nearly everyone has a cell phone these days.

She knew who to call and what to say despite what must have been blinding terror.

She was in death as she was in life: The James Bond woman. Barbara was beautiful enough to be a dumb blonde, but she had the steely determination, wit and charm of someone who would not be able to get by on her looks.

Barbara wrote the New York Times bestseller, “Hell to Pay,” about Hillary Clinton, the molecular opposite of a James Bond girl.She smiled and laughed at her debate opponents while sweetly shredding them to bits. And she never compromised, not her integrity, not the facts, not the law.

Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end. I can’t believe I’ll never be able to tell her that.

[lonestar]

A teary but beautiful one!

[Feiny]

I live 2 doors down from the fire dept.
This morning I left a Beanie HERO Baby out front in memory of John.

[dixie sass]

I second that about the graphic and your art work. There are two drawings - yours and the child out west who did the drawing of liberty holding a child in her arms and a pistol in the other - I believe the caption was "never come between a mother and her child"

If we remember one thing, it is that, in their own way these people died for their country/countries. We mustn't forget that there were people from other parts of the world.

The most horrible site was the Pentagon. To me, seeing the vuneralbility of the pentagon was gut wrenching. To me, the Pentagon had always seemed invunerable, a symbol of our strength and then it was injured, a fallen warrior.

It seems that, because the death of the WTO was so spectacular, that the people, men, women and children who died in Shanksville, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. have been shoved to the side as incidental to the fact.

They are getting ready to have a service at the USS YORKTOWN this evening. I wish that I could go. There is a group here in Charleston, I can't remember the name, but they are building instead of mourning. That Americans can pull together and will not be pulled apart.

GOD bless America.

[GailA]