From News Nation:
“Ex-flight attendant pushes
drink cart to honor 9/11 friends”
(Paul Veneto pushes a beverage
cart along the Boston harbor, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Veneto, a former flight
attendant who lost several colleagues when United Flight 175 was flown into the
World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, is honoring his friends on the 20th
anniversary of the terrorist attacks by pushing the beverage cart from Boston
to ground zero in New York.)
The retired flight attendant
pushing an airline beverage cart more than 200 miles from Boston to New York
City to honor colleagues who died during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
is well on his way. Paul Veneto, 62, resumed his 20th-anniversary journey
Monday after a night at the Verve Hotel in Natick, two days after starting his
trek at Logan International Airport and a day after braving drenching rains
from the Henri storm system. He plans on pushing the cart — decorated with
photos of all the 9/11 airline crews for inspiration and courage — to ground
zero by Sept. 10. “I look on top of this cart, I see these crew members’ faces,
every time my legs hurt, it’s cold, rainy, they’re smiling back at me, the pain
goes away,” Veneto said Saturday before he departed. The walk, called Paulie’s
Push, will benefit the families of his former colleagues and Power Forward 25,
a nonprofit that assists people dealing with addiction. Veneto himself is in
recovery from an opioid dependency caused in part by the attacks. “I turned my
life around to be able to recognize these guys who were never recognized,”
Veneto said Saturday. “We all can tell this country and the world that these
crew members were heroes on 9/11.” United Flight 175, which was flown into the
World Trade Center’s south tower in New York, was Veneto’s regular run. But he
had the day off on Sept. 11, 2001. The Braintree resident spent 30 years as a
flight attendant for five different airlines.
^ This is a really decent
memorial for the flight attendants and everyone else who died on 9/11. ^
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