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.
Yes, but should the United Way and Red Cross be expected to keep the survivors living in the same lifestyle they had prior to the attack? If so these organizations will need to raise hundreds of billions to keep the families of stock brokers and bond traders living at the lifestyle they are accustomed.
It is interesting that we do not here the voices of the families of the bus boys, maids, janitors and service workers that were killed in the attack. Have they received $30,000.00 or are they just keeping quiet and thanking God for the time they did have with their loved one?
How can you have any clue at all what their personal finances are?
LOL - of course, blame it on the attorneys....instead of the fact that this family was probably living at 150% of their take home pay.....and she doesn't want to lower her standard of living. She wants to stay home with her two children even though her husband is dead. Well, in the real world, if you don't save money....and spend more than you make....and the breadwinner dies...and you don't have life insurance, then you sell the second car, you move to a less expensive house and you get a job.
It is entirely possible that they were spending up to his income. You can call it poor planning or have no sympathy for them because they were living too richly for your tastes but the fact remains that it is not unreasonable to assume that his salary was or exceeded $150K and that he and his wife were living on a fairly tight budget that they would be able to afford if he were alive but which she cannot legitimately afford now that he is dead. And if they recently bought the house (likely given his age) and the value has gone down a bit and/or the real estate agent fees would exceed the equity in the house (possible for a $400K or $500K home), then selling may not be an option for her, either. And she may now have to pay for insurance benefits that her husband's job once provided.
Call it poor planning. Turn away because they were rich. The point remains that it is entirely possible that simply paying the bills that she had before he died that she could run through $30K in 3 months.
Yes, I suppose I'm curious about life insurance, too, but I'm willing to cut this lady some slack.
No, I live in Austin in a neighborhood where older three bedroom houses sell for between 350-500k. If something were to happen to me or my wife the surviving spouse would have to sell the house and move out to the suburbs where a house may cost 150k. However, we also have savings that would carry us through nine months to a year with no income. We have created this cushion because we are responsible adults and realize that bad things can happen.
You keep making more and more assuptions about these people. Do you know them?
I believe you misunderstood what JD said; I, too, wonder what the story on this whiz kids who worked for these stockbrokers is. Why didn't they have personal insurance that would cover their deaths, especially on business travel. Why didn't they have mortgage insurance. If they are making $10,000 a month, or anything close to that, they should have provided for THEIR families instead of blowing all that money.
Any way you dice it, $30,000 is a LOT of money to spend in 3 months.
IMO, these people didn't take care of their families; I know there were plenty of people who didn't earn enough to provide for their families, but the ONLY ones you see on TV are the stockbrokers. They should have KNOWN better and I don't feel the least bit bad for them.
Well, in the real world, if you don't save money....and spend more than you make....and the breadwinner dies...and you don't have life insurance, then you sell the second car, you move to a less expensive house and you get a job.
How hard can this be? Find all the victims families, divide the money up and send out the checks!
If these families had no life insurance or savings then they are very irresponsible. But, Guess What? You and I along with all the American taxpayers will end up supporting victim’s families who failed to life responsible before the 9/11 attacks. What a Country!
Then her HUSBAND should have carried life insurance to cover all that.
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