Retired flight attendant pushes drink cart more than 200 miles to honor 9/11 colleagues.
“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 as well as 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.
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