Paulie Veneto, a retired flight attendant, is pushing his
cart one more time to honour the flight crews that lost their lives due to the
9/11 attacks in 2001.

The Boston native is walking from his city to ground zero in
New York, a distance of 220 miles, to honour the victims of the tragedy.

He worked at the Logan Airport in Boston during the period
of the attack but it happened on the day he was off duty. Flight 175, one of
the planes that were hijacked to carry out the attacks, took off.

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 Veneto said that the
reason he undertook what he calls the walk to honor is because people  sometimes-forgot the flight crews who lost
their lives in the attacks. The victims included some of his own colleagues.

“It bothered me that none of us recognized them for that.
They never heard the word ‘heroes.’ They were the first first responders of
9/11,” Veneto said, according to News 12.

He revealed that he struggled with drug addictions in the
aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. But now he said that he is healthy enough to
complete the journey. Wherever he goes, he is treated with love and respect,
according to him.

“I’m just so grateful that I was able to turn my life around … And now I’m able to do what I’m doing,” he said, Fox News reported. 

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His aim is to reach
the ground zero on Saturday to honour the victims of tragedy.

Meanwhile, a video shared on social media showed Veneto making his way through New Haven, Connecticut on Sept. 5. In the video, Veneto is escorted by local police and fire departments with supporters cheering him.

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Expressing his gratitude for all the encouragement he received, he says in the video, “to walk down the street here with all of these police cruisers and fire trucks supporting me, how can I not feel excited and grateful? It’s unbelievable.”