ASSOCIATE Magazine FBINAA Q2-2024

A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAPLAIN

Mike Hardee

O ne of the greatest honors for me serving as your National Board chaplain is to officiate the Hall of Honor ceremony during our annual Chapter Leadership Summit at the FBI National Academy. The program is intended to memorialize and pay tribute to National Academy graduates who are killed in the line of duty by adversarial action. This is a spiritual time when we stand together, pray together, and honor our fallen heroes by placing their names on an etched stone tablet on the Hall of Honor as visitors pass through the FBI National Academy. Each hero’s name is read, along with a brief description and the circumstances by which they were killed. Together we remember their sacrifices to this country, communities, and to their families. United in prayer and hope, we mourn their loss and offer comfort and support to the families. Any member who knows of a qualifying honoree should col lect all background information relating to the death and then pre pare a summary of facts to be forwarded to any FBINAA National Board member, who will then submit it to the National Board historian, who is the chairperson of the Hall of Honor Committee. The association assists with travel expenses for the family to attend and provides an immediate monetary death benefit to the family as well. On March 5, 2024, we honored three of our members during the 2024 Chapter Leadership Summit. They are: JAMES G. MOLLOY NA Session 293 New York Police Department DOD: January 30, 2017 Chief James Molloy joined the New York Police Department in January 1992, and quickly rose through the ranks and was pro moted to captain in 1998 at the age of 28, making him the young est captain in the history of the New York Police Department. Chief Molloy attended the 193rd Session, graduating in 1998. On Sept. 11, 2001, Chief Molloy was driving to work when authorities stopped traffic through the Brooklyn Battery Tun nel as the Twin Towers burned. He was reportedly the last car through the tunnel. When the Towers collapsed, massive waves of toxic dust and debris flooded into the tunnel. Chief Molloy, covered in dust, went to Ground Zero and began working to rescue the victims. He was assigned to Ground Zero for several months, where he worked and supervised rescue and recovery efforts. Chief Molloy died in January 2017 of brain cancer, which he contracted due to inhalation of toxic materials from partici pating in the rescue and recovery of the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks. JANELLE SANDERS NA Session 280 New York Police Department DOD: September 11, 2022 Captain Janelle Sanders joined the New York Police Department in 2000 and climbed to the rank of captain, last serving as the executive officer of the 23rd Precinct. On Sept. 11, 2001, Janelle, as a young police officer, held the line with many

others, working in and around Ground Zero of the World Trade Center during the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks. Twenty-one years later to the day — on September 11, 2022 — Captain Janelle Sanders tragically passed away in the line of duty from a 9/11 related illness directly attributed to her exposure of toxins from the rescue-and-recovery efforts she performed at the World Trade Center site. HORREN R. TYLER Madison Police Department DOD: June 1, 2023 On June 1, 2023, Police Officer Horren Tyler was shot and killed during a tactical operation at a home on Terrapin Hill Road, North Brandon, Mississippi. A subject, armed with a rifle and hand gun and wearing a bulletproof vest, had broken into the home at about 1:20 a.m. and took two women hostage. As Brandon Police Department officers arrived at the scene, one of the women was able to escape but a second woman remained hostage. At about 6 a.m. the offender opened fire on the officers, critically wounding another officer with the Brandon Police Department.

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