Remembering John Moran (Freeper BCM)

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[Maven]

Firefighter With Law Degree

John Moran was a Fire Department battalion chief and his cousin Joseph Crowley was a congressman. But when they united their voices that last Saturday afternoon, at the block party in the Rockaways -- well, "The Star of the County Down" never sounded sweeter. At 42, Chief Moran was a kayaking, tin- whistle-playing firefighter with a law degree. But he never put himself before others.

[Maven]

I saw a thread in remembrance of Freeper Barbara Olson (BKO), but not one for Freeper FDNY Battalion Chief John Moran (BCM). I don't usually create threads, but this one needed to be done.

[TheWriterTX]

Thank you for doing it.

[jocon307]

Yes, you are right to do it.

May he rest in peace.

[BobP]

9-11 Remembered

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thank you for this remembrance thread.

Please Lord, continue to protect us...

[bronxville]

May God hold you in the palm of His hand forever.

RIP Jim and thank you.

Thanks Maven for this thread.

[bronxville]

I knew it was John but wrote Jim. Sleeplessness will do it everytime.

RIP John.

[newzjunkey]

Thanks for posting this.

From 2001, the BCM memorial thread

[First_Salute]

May God Bless BCM, FDNY Battalion Chief John Moran.

Thank you.

The original old FR page (now probably in-accessible):
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3bbcc51526ad.htm

It was a New York Daily News story of 10/04/2001:

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.”

[brityank]

NYFD Battalion Chief John Moran
(Freeper BCM)
R. I. P.

God bless John and all his Brothers - past and present.

I found the following impressive:

9/11 Documentary (The Naudet Brothers) - 1:44:35 Video from French Videographers with NYFD.

Thank you, Maven, for this remembrance.