A retired flight attendant will honor the airline crews who died during the 9/11 terrorist attack by pushing an airplane drink service cart from Boston to New York City, the path of United Flight 175, the Associated Press reports.
An airline flight attendant for 30 years, 62-year-old Paul Veneto will start the trek at Boston’s Logan Airport and travel to Ground Zero, where Flight 175 was the second flight to crash into the World Trade Center. Veneto was working on the route the night before the attack, and typically would have been on the Tuesday flight out of Boston, but he had a scheduled day off and was using his down-time to help friend build a wall at their home. He didn’t know Flight 175 had crashed into the tower until hours after the attack.
When he found out, “I was in shock,” he said. “I wanted revenge. I was angry and I knew there was nothing I could do.”
Veneto said that his trek, which is called Paulie’s Push, is his way of recognizing his fallen colleagues. “They were the first first responders. They were heroes. They were absolute heroes,” Veneto said. The 220 mile route will take eleven days to complete.
The event will be a fundraiser for a registered charity that helps the families of those flight crews killed in the attack. You can get more information here.