Mark D. Rosenberg - "Mickey" to family and friends - conducted a great deal of business in the Far East, which of course necessitated a number of extra-long trips from his home in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, which he shared with his wife of thirty years, Meredith, and in which he and Meredith had raised their two daughters, Rachel and Sara. He not only endured them, he thrived on them. He was driven to be excellent and did not complain about the hard work required to attain that success.
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Mickey Rosenberg boarded United Flight 93 in Newark, buckled himself into his seat in first-class, and began what was intended to be the first leg of a very long travel day with a cross-country flight to San Francisco.
United Flight 93's takeoff from Newark that morning was delayed by roughly forty minutes. It finally took off at 8:42 am. Four minutes later, the North Tower of the World Trade Center was struck. At 9:27 am, Captain Jason Diehl checked in with air traffic control in Cleveland and reported all was well. Almost immediately thereafter, the calm was shattered by frantic calls of "Mayday! Mayday!" At 9:30 am, first-class passenger Tom Burnett telephoned his wife Deena. He told her that the plane had been hijacked and that the hijackers had stabbed and killed, Mickey Rosenberg, a fellow first-class passenger. He directed his wife to call the authorities and report what he had told her.
In addition to his wife and his daughters, Mickey Rosenberg's mother, Dorothy, survived him. His dad, Irving, with whom he had worked before forging his own path in business, which led to him being the President of MDR Global Resources, Inc. at the time of his death, predeceased him. He was fifty-two years old.
-AK
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