Lyz Glick had begun to see that, too.
"And then, you know, I finally just decided, gut instinct, that, 'Honey, you need to do it,' says Lyz. "And then, you know, he joked. He's like, 'OK, I have my butter knife from breakfast.' You know, this was totally like Jeremy."
As they both cried, Jeremy took the time to prepare his wife for a life without him.
"We said I love you a thousand times over and over again," says Lyz, "and it just brought so much peace to us, and it wasn't even the words, I felt the feeling from it. He told me, 'I love Emmy,' who is our daughter, and to take care of her. Then he said, 'Whatever decisions you make in your life, I need you to be happy, and I will respect any decisions that you make.' That's what he said, and that gives me the most comfort. He sounded strong. He didn't sound panicked. Very clear-headed. I told him to put a picture of me and Emmy in his head to be strong."
So Lyz was strong for him, as he was strong for her?
"Yes," she says. "I mean, neither of us panicked. He knew that he was not going to make it out of there."
thie emotional two way conversation bolded above puts to rest any fantasy of faked phone calls or voice morphing. You need to move on, Not that i think you will simply because you have too much ego involved in your "'work" already to turn back.
And so did Lyz?
"I had hope," she says.
Several passengers recited the Lord's Prayer together. Todd Beamer was one of them. GTE Operator Lisa Jefferson said it along with them.
"After that he had a sigh in his voice," says Lisa Jefferson. "He took a deep breath. He was still holding the phone. But he was not talking to me, he was talking to someone else. And he said, 'You ready? Ok. Let's roll.'"
Flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw told her husband they were all running to first class together. "I've got to go, bye," she said, and dropped the phone.
Elizabeth Wainio ended her call abruptly, too.
Jere Longman says, "Shortly after 10:00, Elizabeth said, 'Mom, they're rushing the cockpit. I've got to go. Bye.'"
The counterattack had begun.
Television worldwide was broadcasting the news of a terror attack on New York City. Now the Pentagon was burning, too. But terrorists had chosen another target. Those plans were about to be thwarted.
At 10:00, aboard Flight 93, a counterattack had begun.
Jeremy Glick interrupted his 26-minute call to his wife, Lyz. "Hold the line," he said, "I'll be back." But she couldn't bear to listen and handed the phone to her father, Richard Makely.
"There was no noise for several minutes," says Makely. "And then there were screams, screams in the background, and so I said, well, they're doing it."
Lorne Lyles was still holding the phone too.
"And then I hear commotion in the background," says he says. "I didn't know what to think. Honestly, I didn't know what to think had happened. All I know is I got disconnected. And I got disconnected with her screaming."
After Todd Beamer's signal, people in the back of the plane started running forward. The way a Boeing 757 is configured - with one narrow aisle running up the center - they would had to have charged single-file.
Based on interviews with investigators and family members who heard the cockpit voice recorder tapes last spring, New York Times reporter Jere Longman can reconstruct the scene.
"The government's theory is that the passengers did actually reach the cockpit using a food cart as a battering ram and a shield," says Longman.
Why do they think that?
"Well, from enhancement - digital enhancement of the voice recorder, there's the sound of plates and glassware crashing near the end of the flight," says Longman.
But one person would had to have to have been behind that cart.
"It took brave people to, I mean, can you imagine if you were that first person in line rushing forward, and the curtain was closed in first class, and you had no idea what you would be encountering when you pulled that curtain back?" says Longman. "It took a brave person to do that."
Witnesses in rural Pennsylvania saw the plane flying at very low altitude, but at very high speed, making erratic wing maneuvers, rocking back and forth.
"Some investigators believe that the hijackers were trying to, you know, waggle the wings to keep the passengers from getting forward, to kind of knock them around like bowling pins," says Longman.
Waggling the wings, then, wouldn't have been necessary unless there had been a threat to the cockpit.
"Oh, sure. at one point you can hear, you know, 'In the cockpit, in the cockpit,'" says Longman. "And then someone says something that's unintelligible and kind of garbled, but it's the sense that if we don't do that, then, quote, 'We'll die.'"
On the cockpit tape, the hijackers are reportedly heard telling each other to hold the door while someone on the outside shouts, "Let's get them."
"During this part the hijackers are also praying," says Longman.
What is the nature of their praying?
"Saying 'Allah akbar' - God is great," says Longman.
Is there a sense at this point that the hijackers know that the flight is going to end prematurely?
"They're obviously threatened, and feel threatened," says Longman. "And at one point, one of the hijackers suggests shutting off the oxygen supply to the cabin. As I understand it, it's a very difficult or impossible thing to do, and it wouldn't have any effect on the breathing of the passengers, because they were below 10,000 feet. And then the hijackers begin talking about, 'Should we finish?' And on the transcript it says, 'Finish it/her off.' "
It's unclear whether the hijackers are referring to the flight itself, or to an unidentified woman, heard pleading for her life earlier on the tape.
"In the final moments of this struggle, according to the families who heard the tape, voices that seemed muffled and distant all of a sudden became clearer," says Longman. "They took that as some corroboration that the passengers actually are in - perhaps crew - actually did reach the cockpit."
Does he mean, reach it, breach it?
"Get inside," says Longman.
They got in?
"Yes, that's the government theory, that they actually got inside," says Longman. "Near the end you hear in english words, 'Roll it up,' and 'lift it up,' or 'turn it up,' or 'pull it up.' The families have taken that as a sign that the passengers and perhaps crew were trying to regain control of the plane."
