Posted on 12/13/2001 2:38:51 PM PST by AmericaUnited
Thursday Dec. 13, 2001; 4:45 p.m. EST
Wife of Flight 93 Hero Gets Cold Shoulder from 9/11 Charities
Three months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wife of Flight 93 hero Jeremy Glick is struggling to make ends meet, since an array of charities created to help 9/11 victims have given her the brush off because of a technicality.
Lyzabeth Glick tells the New York Daily News that the national United Way hasn't been much help, telling her recently, "(your husband) was not in the World Trade Center, we're not giving you any funds."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency also gave Mrs. Glick and her two children the cold shoulder, explaining, "We're not giving any money to Flight 93 victims."
Even a promise from singer Kristy Jackson, who recorded "Little Did She Know" as a tribute to Jeremy Glick with an eye towards donating the proceeds to victims' families, hasn't panned out. Mrs. Glick says she has yet to see a cent from the song.
She, her young daughter and five-month-old son were at the White House Tuesday to commemorate the three month anniversary of the attacks, where they heard President Bush honoring the husband and father as "one of the heroes of Sept. 11" whose "courage may have saved the White House" when he and fellow Flight 93 passengers foiled the plans of the kamikaze hijackers at the cost of their own lives.
But her husband's hero status hasn't meant much in terms getting some of the money donated to 9/11 victims. After collecting a mere $5,000 from her local United Way and $25,000 from the Red Cross, she's now all tapped out.
With charity after charity giving Mrs. Glick the runaround, she now hopes to find a teaching job to keep the bank from foreclosing on her home.
I just saw one of the widow's on Brian Williams' show; she's not having ANY trouble at all dealing with the charities, she said.
I don't know about you but I live in Texas and in Texas we live responsibly, save money and buy life insurance. In other words we depend only on ourselves and if we are met with death or destruction tomorrow our families will not have to beg for money from Red Cross, United Way or the American Taxpayer. We are self-reliant and depend on no one. However, if you wish to keep the families of bond traders living at the same lifestyle, as they are accustomed I have no problem with your doing so. However, you had better have a large checking account because many of these bond traders families are accustomed to incomes of between 250k and two million dollars per year.
BTW, I did open my checkbook after the attacks and wrote a check to the Red Cross. If that money I gave is used to help the family of a lesbian, gay, illegal alien or fireman I will be proud of my donation.
The total amount that people have donated for the victims of 9/11 is approximately 1.3 billion. Unless my math is wrong, that should come out to $433,000 for each family (1.3 billion divided by 3,000 victims. I would much rather see each family get that money, than have it go to terrorists' lawyers and to arts charities which weren't even affected by 9/11!
Note that not all those people who died in the WTC were not brokers. Most were secretaries, general office staff, IT workers, cleaners, waiters, busboys/girls, tour guides...
My point was, that the average-income good samaritan dug deep to help alleviate the pain and suffering of those families who were not well off. Many were young and just starting out in life and were probably cash poor.
And I know for a fact that living in the metro NYC area is a heck of a lot more expensive than living in Texas.
What does your sister think of the way Cantor Fitzgerald has handled things? I've heard mixed comments.
Exactly, but most often I have seen widows of men who must have been making between 250-750k per year screaming that they have been living paycheck to paycheck and that that Red Cross has not helped them out. It is a little difficult for me to understand how someone making that kind of cash could not have any savings. Wednesday night on the factor Bill mentioned a family that had already received 90k and it was not enough. Where is the self-responsibility?
The families of the secretaries, waiters, busboys and tour guides should not be shafted in this deal just because their loved one was not rich. They should also be taken care of but what bothers me is that the wives of the firemen, tour guide and janitor are not the ones on Fox News crying about how they had to live paycheck to paycheck and the Red Cross will not bail them out.
And I know for a fact that living in the metro NYC area is a heck of a lot more expensive than living in Texas.
NYC in very expensive but here in Austin modest three bedroom houses are selling for 350k to 500k and downtown lofts are going for between 400k and 1.2 million.
It is very refreshing to see money from Australia and other nations around the globe. But, I want to money to rebuild the Pentagon from every nation the United States has saved over the last 100 years. Yes, Great Briton, France, Kuwait; it is time to open your checkbooks and pay us back.
WOW! Why so expensive? That's ridiculous. For that kind of money you can still buy a house one block back from the Gulf in my old hometown of Sarasota (I moved downunder 18 years ago).
Meanwhile, I keep reading stories about legitimate victims that can not get anything.
Thank you for your judgmentalism. Merry Christmas to you, too.
You gotta say it louder:
Tell you what: You get her address, and together we'll start the Lyzabeth Glick fund, right here on FR. We'll direct Freepers who want to help, to send her a check directly. No middle-man United Way or Red Cross here, it'll be a direct donation.
Somehow, I don't think JimRob will mind a thread like that one bit. So, you get her address (I'm half blind today, due to eye surgery yesterday) and we're gonna run with it.
Let's Roll.
Yep.
I think a guy who gives his life to stop a commercial airliner from crashing into the white house deserves to have his family taken care of.
He may have been a 'top performing sales manager', but who knows what that means monetarily? And if he just joined them in May of 2000, he would only have had a year and a few months of any large salary or commissions. Uncle Sam would have gotten at least 25-30% of that. Considering the fact that he was so young, he and his wife my BOTH have had large college debt, they had the mortgage, and car payments. And as someone mentioned before, New Jersey has high property taxes, and sales taxes on everything.
She needs a financial advisor NOW! Surely there is someone who would do it pro-bono for her. That would be a good service for financial advisors to perform, helping the families of those killed in these attacks; and I'm including Flight 93 in that group!
And since he was on business travel, almost all employers that I know of purchase travel policies, on the cheap, with a minimum of $100,000 accidental death coverage through their corporate credit card carriers. This is a standard benefit of American Express corporate travel cards.
But I really can't criticize too harshly. If it were my wife, I'd want her to seek out every source of assistance available. If the "charities" state that they're collecting money to "financially assist victims of 9/11," then I'd want her to pursue them and take them at their word.
Do you have any idea how much it costs to bury someone? That $30,000 may have only paid for the funeral, casket, etc. if some sharp funeral director got ahold of her. Do you know how long life insurance policies (if he had one) take to pay out? Sometimes as much as six months (they don't build those big tall buildings because they're giving money away). Do you know the paltry amount Social Security pays (if you can get it)?
These charities' behavior is outrageous.
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