THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM AL HAGAN PRESIDENT OF THE FDNY UFOA REGARDING THE FUNERAL OF LT MARTY FULLAM (see reply # 72 above)..........QUOTE........................ From the moment he became sick Lieutenant Marty Fullam never stopped fighting for the rest of us who worked in the toxic cloud that hung over the pile and later the pit.
At yesterday?s funeral Commissioner Cassano said, ?When he could no longer fight fires, he continued to fight for all the FDNY members who responded on Sept. 11?he fought for them so their illnesses would be recognized, and so they and their families would be compensated. . . . Marty knew this was for everyone who puts on the FDNY uniform, who risks their lives to save others.?
His wife Trish gave a moving eulogy. She spoke of the person we all want to be and how through coping with the ramifications of his illness, ?he evolved into a bigger man and a better person than he had ever hoped to see?
She also spoke of how, even though it might have been easy, ?he never uttered the words ?why me,? never complained of his plight.?
Doctor Prezant told of how when Marty would come to the medical office on Sunday mornings for the (what evolved to become) the FDNY World Trade Center Lung Clinic, he refused to jump the line, even though he was among the sickest in the room.
o Later when he was tethered to an oxygen bottle, Doctor Prezant told him there was a BHS rule that said any firefighter on oxygen MUST go to the front of the line.
o Doctor Prezant thought that as Marty approached the gates of heaven, God told him that heaven has the same rule.
Marty leaves behind his mom, Helen; his beautiful wife Trish (nee Kelly); his daughters Kelly Caroline, and Emma; his brothers David and Joseph; his sisters Deborah Turovic and Carol Johnson and thousands upon thousands of grateful firefighters, police officers and EMT?s.
Thank you Marty. .......UNQUOTE.