Jeremy Logan Glick (September 3, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks. Aware of the earlier attacks at the World Trade Center, Glick and some of his fellow passengers attempted to foil the hijacking. During a struggle to reclaim the aircraft, it crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 33 passengers and seven crew members on board, along with the four hijackers.
Personal life
Glick was born September 3, 1970,[2] the middle child,[3] and middle son of Joan and Lloyd Glick of Hewitt, New Jersey.[4] Glick and his five siblings, all of whose names begin with the letter "J", grew up in a Jewish family[5][6] in Saddle River, New Jersey.[3] He attended Saddle River Day School,[3] where in the 7th grade, he met his future wife, Lyzbeth.[1] They became high school sweethearts, and were prom king and queen in 1988.[4]
At the time of his death, Glick worked as a sales executive for Vividence, an e-consulting company in San Mateo, California.[11]
Glick was a resident of West Milford, New Jersey,[12] where he and Lysbeth made their home in a small cottage on a lake. At the time of his death, they had been married for five years. Their daughter and only child Emerson, was born on June 18, 2001, less than three months before his death,[1][13] and was named after her parents' favorite poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.[10] As a high school sophomore, Emerson delivered a 2017 TED Talk on dealing with tragedy and grief.[13][14]
September 11 attacks
Glick boarded Flight 93 to attend a company sales meeting. He was originally scheduled to travel on the previous day.[11]
According to accounts of cell phone conversations, Glick, along with Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham and Tom Burnett, formed a plan to take the plane back from the hijackers, and led other passengers in this effort.[15] Glick's last words to his wife when aboard Flight 93 were: "We're going to rush the hijackers." He then hung up the phone.[16][17]
Co-workers and family stated that they were not surprised that Glick took action. Glick's brother-in-law Douglas Hurwitt said, "that was my brother-in-law. He was a take-charge guy."[16] Glick's former boss, Thomas Torf, added: "He was a no-nonsense kind of guy. He took ownership of things. Very focused. He loved his family. He was a good businessman. All of us loved him."[18]
On September 11, 2002, Glick was posthumously awarded the Medal for Heroism, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR).[20]
Glick's sister, Joanna Glick, who finished tenth in the 2001 Junior National Amateur Figure Skating competition, skated a tribute to her brother at a benefit at Madison Square Garden, for which she received a standing ovation. Joanna, who was profiled in Joe McNally's portrait book, Faces of Ground Zero, said of her brother: "He was so strong. I was thinking I should be strong too. Jeremy lives in our hearts. Love, freedom and bravery live on forever."[21] Following his death, Glick's sister Jennifer founded the non-profit organization Jeremy's Heroes, to assist talented but financially challenged young athletes receive training in order to "find their inner heroes" through sports.[1]
On June 2, 2019, in a ceremony held at the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center, the city of Rochester, New York, where Glick had attended college, inducted Glick into the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame as its 182nd member, an honor accepted by his parents.[10]
West Milford, New Jersey honored Glick by naming the Jeremy Glick Trail, and the vista, Jeremy Glick's Overlooks, after him.[25][26][27]
In popular culture
In the 2005 television film The Flight That Fought Back, which depicts the passenger uprising inside the hijacked United Airlines 93, Jeremy Glick is portrayed by Kevin Paul.
He is portrayed by Colin Glazer in the 2006 film Flight 93.
