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The story of United Flight 93 is a story of real-life heroes
Aired March 11, 2002 - 07:50 ET
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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The story of United Flight 93 is a story of real-life heroes. No one knows that better than the families of those passengers who dared to challenge the hijackers. Thirty-one- year old Jeremy Glick was a passenger on Flight 93. He was a devoted family man, an accomplished athlete, and full of life. And Jeremy Glick's sisters, Jennifer and Joanna Glick, are devoted to keeping their brother's memory alive, and they both join us from New York City this morning.
Cold enough for you this morning? Good morning.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.
ZAHN: I know that we've had an opportunity to talk a number of times over the last six months. What is it that you awakened thinking about this morning?
JENNIFER GLICK: Moving forward, being stronger and moving forward, and that's why you know we started Jeremy's Heroes to take his spirit and help children in the future.
ZAHN: Let's talk about Jeremy's Heroes now Joanna. We're looking at this picture right here. Is that you? With your big brother? We have a lot of lovely family pictures. You are a very close-knit family, aren't you?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Yes.
ZAHN: What was Jeremy like as a big bro?
JOANNA GLICK: He was amazing, just athletic and such a role model for everyone old and young. So ...
ZAHN: And your sister just mentioned Jeremy's Heroes ...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
ZAHN: ... let's describe what this foundation will do. Your brother was always a very accomplished athlete, and what you're essentially trying to do is raise funds to help other athletes who come from moderately - moderate income families to move forward with their careers.
JENNIFER GLICK: Any child or any organization, we're finding a lot of organizations actually are coming to us who are running into financial barriers, and it's stopping them from pursuing their sport. We have been putting together money and giving them grants. We made our first grant out in Chicago to a program called Troop Star started by a 12-year old girl, and today we're making our second grant to Harlem Street's class (ph) and we're sending four children off to tournaments outside the metropolitan area, which they have not had the money to do. And ...
ZAHN: It's fantastic.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... yes it's great.
ZAHN: So there has been a huge outpouring of support, then?
JENNIFER GLICK: There has been. Yes. We have - it's all been private donations. We are non-for profit. We're - our application has been pending with the IRS, but we wanted to make sure that whatever came in from everybody across America goes out, and our first application came from watching me introduce the non for profit when I was being interviewed by you. Troop Star wrote to us and that's how ...
ZAHN: Really?
JENNIFER GLICK: ... we started. Yes.
ZAHN: Well glad to hear that something positive came out of it.
JENNIFER GLICK: It was great.
ZAHN: Now Joanna, we should explain that the athletic gene clearly runs in your family. You are an accomplished skater yourself, and we're going to show some pictures now of some of your polish on the ice and on October 5th, this is you, not even a month after your brother's death, and you join some of the country's best figure skaters and skated in the Champions on Ice show as a tribute to Jeremy. And I want to - as we watch this picture, replay a little bit of what you told us right before that event, about how intimidating the prospect of skating there that evening was. Let's listen to what you had to say.
JOANNA GLICK: ... thinking about Jeremy and how he was always my supporter and no matter what decision I made, he really backed me in everything I did. So that's what I'm going to be thinking about.
ZAHN: And since that time, Joanna, I understand you've made some big decisions about your skating career. By the way, you looked fantastic out there (UNINTELLIGIBLE). What are you going to do?
JOANNA GLICK: I'm going to continue. I'm not really sure whether I'm going to take it to that step of going to the Olympics or not. But I'm definitely going to continue and keep his spirit alive. So ...
ZAHN: And what were you feeling that night that you skated? Were you able to think of Jeremy ... JOANNA GLICK: Yes I was.
ZAHN: ... and his legacy?
JOANNA GLICK: I totally zoned in and just focused on that. But we're moving forward with Jeremy's Heroes and it is such a great organization (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
ZAHN: Oh I think it's terrific that you've taken such pain and tragedy and turned it into something so powerful and positive.
JENNIFER GLICK: Thank you.
ZAHN: Good to see you.
JENNIFER GLICK: Thank you for having us.
ZAHN: Maybe you should have worn some gloves today. This poor woman is freezing. Best of luck to both of you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you ...
(CROSSTALK)
ZAHN: Joanna and Jennifer Glick.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.
ZAHN: Thanks again for your time this morning.
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