09/11/2026
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Tomorrow, a retired United Airlines flight attendant named Paul "Paulie" Veneto pushes an airline beverage cart into Ground Zero — and finishes something 25 years in the making.
Paulie flew United Flight 175 regularly for years.
He was off the morning it was hijacked and flown into the South Tower.
He knew every member of that crew.
"I flew with every one of these guys," he says.
The grief nearly ended him — 15 years lost to opioid addiction before he got clean in 2015.
Then he found his mission: honor the flight crews of 9/11, the ones he calls the "first, first responders," who faced hijackers with no warning and no weapons.
Since 2021 he's pushed that cart along every hijacked flight path.
Boston to New York. Washington to the Pentagon.
Newark to Shanksville.
Boston to New York again.
This year, for the 25th anniversary, he's doing it one final time — and he's not walking alone.
Extra carts, extra hands, entire towns shutting down streets to walk beside him.
Tomorrow, September 11th, he pushes the last mile down Broadway into Ground Zero.
One man. One cart. Over 1,000 miles for people who never got to come home.
RESPECT. 🫡