Background
Glick was born into a Jewish family and had five siblings, all of whose names begin with the letter "J." He was a middle child among the six children of his family.
Glick was born into a Jewish family and had five siblings, all of whose names begin with the letter "J." He was a middle child among the six children of his family.
He attended Saddle River Day School in Saddle River, New Jersey.
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. He and his high school sweetheart, Lyzbeth, were prom king and queen in 1988.
He later worked as a sales and marketing executive for Vividence, an e-consulting company in San Mateo, California.
Glick also played rugby at the University of Rochester where he was a team Captain. On August 31, 1996, Glick married Lyzbeth.
The couple had a daughter, Emerson, born on June 18, 2001, whom they named after author Ralph Waldo Emerson. Glick was a resident of West Milford, New Jersey.
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.
Company-workers and family stated that they were not surprised that Glick took action. He was a take-charge guy." 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. All of us loved him."
I was thinking I should be strong too. Jeremy lives in our hearts.
Love, freedom and bravery live on forever."
West Milford, New Jersey honored Glick by naming the Jeremy Glick Trail, and the vista, Jeremy Glick"s Overlooks, after him. At the National 9/11 Memorial, Glick is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel South-67, along with other passengers on Flight 93.
He was a good businessman.