- Jeremy Glick (Flight 93)
Jeremy Logan Glick (
3 September ,1970 –11 September ,2001 ) was one of several passengers believed to have counterattacked the hijackers ofUnited Airlines Flight 93 , on11 September 2001 .Glick was
US National CollegiateJudo champion in 1993, while he was a student at theUniversity of Rochester [ [http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93glickbiop8.asp Passenger: Jeremy Glick ] ] [ [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/11/09/rec.glick.cnna/index.html Jennifer Glick: Jeremy's Heroes foundation commemorates brother] - CNN. 9 November 9 2001] , where he was President of the Rochester Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and he later worked as a sales and marketing executive for Vividence, aSan Mateo e-consulting company.Flight 93
Glick's last words to his wife, on Flight 93, were: "We're going to rush the hijackers." Then he put down the phone. [http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/vignettes.html Heroes: Facing the End - The Fight for Flight 93] - a time.com special report. 2001.] ] [ [http://www.unitedheroes.com/Jeremy-Glick.html Jeremy Glick] (unitedheroes.com)]
Co-workers and family all 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." Glick's former boss, Thomas Torf said: "He was a no nonsense kind of guy. He took ownership of things. Very focused. He loved his family. He was a good business man. All of us loved him." [ [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/09/10/daily60.html?jst=s_cn_hl Vividence employee, others puts up fight on Flight 93] - San Francisco Business Times. 12 September 2001]
Posthumous awards
On September 11, 2002, Glick was awarded the "Medal for Heroism", the highest civilian honour bestowed by the
Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_91598.html SAR presents medals, flag in Somerset ceremony] - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. 15 September 2002]Glick was awarded the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2002.Personal life
On August 31, 1996, Glick married long-time girlfriend, Lyzbeth. The two were prom king and queen in 1988. The couple became first-time parents to a baby girl, Emerson, on June 18, 2001. He named her after famous author,
Ralph Waldo Emerson . Glick has five other siblings, all names which begins with the letter "J". He was the middle child of the bunch.Glick was a resident of
West Milford, New Jersey . [Sampson, Peter J. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-46911319.html "W. MILFORD MAN TOLD WIFE OF PLAN TO STORM COCKPIT"] , "The Record (Bergen County) ",September 13 ,2001 . AccessedJuly 20 ,2008 .]In September 2008, the
United States Judo Association (USJA ), awarded him with an Honorary 10th Degree Black Belt...References
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93glickbiop8.asp Passenger: Jeremy Glick] - PG News. 28 October 2001
* [http://www.unitedheroes.com/Jeremy-Glick.html Jeremy Glick] (www.unitedheroes.com)
* [http://www.biography.com/profiles-of-9-11/profiles911.jsp Profiles of 9/11] . Biography.com. Retrieved on2008-04-02 .
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