Retired flight attendant honors 9/11 flight crews by pushing beverage cart 200 miles

It took better than two weeks for Paul Veneto to walk from Boston Logan Airport to lower Manhattan, and he wasn’t alone on his journey — he carried with him the recollections of his associates who labored on United Airways Flight 175, which crashed into the World Commerce Coronary heart on Sept. 11, 2001.

Veneto, 62, is a retired flight attendant, who usually labored the Flight 175 route nevertheless was off on Sept. 11. On the 20 th anniversary of 9/11, Veneto decided he wished to not solely honor the flight crews who misplaced their lives that day, however as well as improve money for his or her households. He called his fundraiser Paulie’s Push, and it involved him strolling from Boston to Manhattan, pushing a beverage cart.

He traveled better than 200 miles, arriving in Manhattan on Saturday. Alongside the easiest way, he stopped to satisfy with completely different flight attendants, first responders, and people who heard about what he was doing and wished to provide him help. His beverage cart was embellished with pictures of the 9/11 flight crews, and Veneto told The Associated Press in August that it’s his mission to verify they’re acknowledged, together with, “All of us can inform this nation and the world that these crew members had been heroes on 9/11.”