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02.09.2024 - 15:46 / thepointsguy.com
As a flight attendant, Paulie Veneto spent much of his adult life pushing a beverage cart up and down the aisles of planes, and he absolutely loved it.
"I really would've done that job without pay because the interactions I had with the passengers and the camaraderie with my fellow flight attendants were just amazing to me," Veneto told TPG. "I was never interested in flying a plane. What I loved was meeting the people from all over the world."
Like so many of us, Veneto could never have imagined or prepared for the events of Sept. 11, 2001. He also never thought that he would mark the 20th anniversary of that tragic day by pushing a beverage cart 240 miles from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to the site of the 2001 World Trade Center collapse in New York City — but that is exactly what he did.
When Veneto set out on the first Paulie's Push, he did so with the intention of recognizing the "first, first responders" of 9/11: the flight crews who did everything in their power to mitigate the effects of a massive terrorist attack.
"American Flight 11 was the very first aircraft to be hijacked that morning, and we know from the recordings we've all heard that these crew members were truly the 'first, first responders' of September 11," Veneto said in a press release promoting this year's push. "They were relaying important information to the ground under horrendous conditions. If I can bring awareness to what they did that morning, that's the very least I can do."
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Veneto felt that more needed to be done to recognize the heroism displayed by the crew members who lost their lives that day.
"Flight attendants didn't get the same recognition as other first responders, and nobody is to blame for that," Veneto said. He understands that the enormity of the day made it impossible to honor every person who played a role in trying to prevent what happened.
As a flight attendant, Veneto often flew United Airlines Flight 175 — the Boston-to-Los Angeles route that was hijacked and crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11. So, he was in a unique position to give those flight attendants the recognition they deserved. Because of his work paying tribute to the flight crews and their loved ones, Veneto received a "Hero in Travel" award at the 2022 TPG Awards.
This year marks the fourth Paulie's Push. In 2022, Veneto pushed his cart 35 miles from Dulles International Airport (IAD) near Washington, D.C., to the Pentagon. Last year he set out on a 300-mile journey from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stoystown, Pennsylvania.
This year, Veneto
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