What would all of our lives be like if all of our freedoms were taken away tomorrow. Your freedom to say what you want to say, your freedom to worship how you wish, your freedom to come and go as you please, your freedom to do nearly everything you want; gone tomorrow. The freedoms we have are taken for granted by all of us because life runs so smoothly.
Jacksonville, North Carolina is home to Camp Lejeune, home to tens of thousands of Marines who protect our freedoms from being taken from us. It is an unfortunate reality of life that there are people who would like to see us lose a great deal more than just our freedoms.
I’ve been in Jacksonville for two days of a ten day stay. I’ve never heard more horns blown for The Kindness Bus in all my sixteen months of travel. The horns are being blown by Marines driving their cars and trucks. The horns are being blown by families of Marines. The realization of seeing a bus like The Kindness Bus driving the streets of their home brings the knowledge that my freedom has been protected by them, to do what I do.
This photo is of me from October 2005 when the 3rd Battallion 25th Marines returned to Brookpark, Ohio after losing 48 of their own in Iraq. Sorry to have mistakenly call you soldiers. I knew none of you but felt I knew all of you. You deserve all the respect you earn. Semper Fi
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.