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Veteran flight attendant pushing beverage cart to honor 9/11 victims arrives at Flooring Zero

Three weeks after he started, Paul “Paulie” Veneto is ending his 220-mile dawdle to Flooring Zero. 

Veneto, a 62-twelve months-outdated ragged flight attendant from Braintree, Massachusetts, has been pushing a beverage cart from Boston’s Logan International Airport to Flooring Zero since Aug. 21 as a skill to honor his colleagues who died in the September 11 attacks

He’s ending his dawdle on Saturday to ticket 20 years since the attacks.

“I knew it had to safe done, this memoir had to be instructed,” Veneto instructed Fox staunch a few days sooner than he arrived at Flooring Zero. “That was once the predominant level of interest for me, I obligatory to slay obvious that that these guys are known. And so I knew what I was once doing was once necessary for their families, that it obligatory national coverage. I had to enact something nobody’s ever done.”

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At the moment, Veneto’s dawdle – which he’s calling Paulie’s Push – was once met with barriers. On the day he arena out from Logan International Airport, Storm Henri was once headed to New England.

Paul Veneto, a 62-twelve months-outdated ragged flight attendant, has been pushing a beverage cart from Boston to Flooring Zero to honor his colleagues who died in the September 11 attacks. 
(Ian Stoker-Long, Courtesy of COMPEL)

“They didn’t judge I’d enact 5 miles and I did 18,” Veneto said. “So then, for certain, in Connecticut, I purchased the other storm, Ida, come through there. So I was once put to the take a look at and nothing stopped me.”

“I said correct from the beginning, nothing’s going to withhold me from getting this beverage cart to Flooring Zero,” Veneto added.

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He said that on on every day foundation foundation, he reminded himself he had to withhold pushing the beverage cart, no matter what barriers – or weather – he faced. 

“All I had to enact was once staunch push a cart,” Veneto said. “I was once continuously going to enact it. I was once going to run with it, I was once going to swim with it, I was once going to raise it, I was once going to enact whatever I had enact to, but all I had to enact was once staunch withhold pushing, rain or shine.”

No matter his long dawdle, Veneto said his dawdle is “nothing” when in contrast with what the flight attendants and crew individuals who died on 9/11 “persisted and what they were ready to enact.”

“That’s a staunch American hero, fighting against trained terrorists,” he said. “It’s unprecedented. They were the first, first responders on 9/11. They staunch were. And they also desires to be known. That’s why I did what I did.”

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Veneto, who spoke to Fox News from the Bronx earlier this week, outlined that his dawdle has been “better than I expected.” 

“It modified into into something I had no plot was once going to happen, on the other hand it was once rather an adventure, I’ll expose you that,” he said. “I secret agent all these individuals in the avenue with indicators and stuff, it’s staunch unprecedented. Entirely unprecedented.”

Veneto will complete his dawdle on Saturday to ticket 20 years since the terrorist attacks.
(Ian Stoker-Long, Courtesy of COMPEL)

He added that physically and mentally, he felt “lovely staunch,” no matter the long dawdle. 

“I dispute the coaching paid off,” he said.

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Fox News beforehand spoke to Veneto sooner than his dawdle in July, while he was once silent coaching for the outing.

He outlined at the time that the foundation for the dawdle came from “commonsense.”

Veneto, a ragged flight attendant, was once a United Airways flight attendant all the device during the time of the attacks and even labored on Flight 175. 
(Courtesy of Paul Veneto)

“I am no longer going to drag to New York – individuals drag, individuals creep … what enact flight attendants enact?” Veneto said at the time. “Every person knows what a flight attendant does, they push a beverage cart down the aisle.”

The cart Veneto has pushing has the American Airways and United Airways flight numbers on the sides, with photos of the crew individuals and flight attendants on the slay, so “I’m them on on every day foundation foundation,” he said. 

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Veneto was once a United Airways flight attendant all the device during the time of the attacks and even labored on Flight 175. He said he knew quite so a lot of the crew individuals who died. 

“Every anniversary that came up, I plot about them,” Veneto said. 

Veneto started his dawdle on Aug. 21, correct when Storm Henri was once headed to the Northeast. No matter the storm, Veneto instructed Fox he silent walked 18 miles that day. 
(Ian Stoker-Long, Courtesy of COMPEL)

Veneto said he generally thinks about how flight attendants replied in the direction of the attacks, calling ground modify and encouraging passengers.

“Those crew individuals, they rallied together below unprecedented instances,” Veneto said. “That was once The United States.”

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After 9/11, Veneto said he struggled for a few years with an opiate addiction, no longer at once getting sober in 2015, per his online page. On the other hand, he instructed Fox that he doesn’t desire his recovery dawdle to “overshadow” the predominant reason of his drag from Boston to New York. 

He instructed Fox News: “I said correct from the beginning, nothing’s going to withhold me from getting this beverage cart to Flooring Zero.”
(Ian Stoker-Long, Courtesy of COMPEL)

“I am staunch so grateful that I was once ready to turn my existence around … And now I am ready to enact what I am doing,” he said.

Veneto said he’s elated he can scheme attention to the heroism of the flight attendants after “what we’ve all been through,” with the coronavirus pandemic and political tensions of the final twelve months-and-a-half. 

“Or no longer it is no longer about any of that stuff,” he said. “Appropriate now, or no longer it is, [let’s] acknowledge these guys. And expectantly, the relaxation of us can all safe along.”

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