Jeremy Glick

September 11 attacks

Glick boarded United Airlines Flight 93 to attend a company sales meeting. He was originally scheduled to travel on the previous day. 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.

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."

Legacy Glick's name is located on Panel S-67 of the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool, along with those of other passengers of Flight 93.

Glick is memorialized at the Flight 93 National Memorial at the crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City, at the South Pool, on Panel S-67, along with other passengers on Flight 93.

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).

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." 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.

In August 2007, Glick was posthumously awarded the Samuel Eells Award for distinguished public service by his fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, at its annual convention at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

In September 2008, the United States Judo Association (USJA), awarded Glick with an Honorary 10th Degree black belt.

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.

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. He is portrayed by Peter Hermann in the 2006 film United 93. Along with other prominent heroes of Flight 93, Glick is mentioned in Leslie Fish's song "Flight 93", and his call to his wife is described.