Kyle and Kyle spend time together

Please take about 7 minutes to watch this. Say what you will about Rowdy Busch - but this is just flat out cool. As a child growing up with 2 parents and 2 healthy siblings - and as a parent nurturing as best I can two healthy, well-adapted kids - I take for granted the challenges and blessings that go along with a situation like this.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8170040

Tried to embed embed video here but no so such luck. But well worth the time in linking to ESPN to watch this touching story.

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Schaefer: It's not just for racing anymore.
updated by @tmc-chase: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM

That video is well worth the time it takes to view. I have watched it twice. Jeff Gilder jokingly said last year that I would become a Kyle Busch fan one day. You know, that may have just happened. Not that I'll necessarily pull for him on the race track but when I watch that video I see a very special Kyle Busch. Oh, sure, with ESPN and Public Relations people setting all that up, it's easy to say it's all a phony Kyle Busch, but watching the segment with the two Kyles on top of the hauler during the truck race says "it's for real". TMC, thanks for sharing that. Made my day in more ways than one.

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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.

Thanks for posting that, Chase. Very inspiring.

Over the years I have been in a position to watch/arrange totally unpublicized visits by drivers to children and by children to drivers. I've recounted on these pages previously the unpublicized visits to Childrens' Hospital in Richmond by the Pettys and Labontes.

One of the most touching I ever arranged was a visit to see the late Dale Earnhardt by a young New York boy with terminal cancer. Completely aside from the Make-A-Wish Foundation (which is simply wonderful), the doctors at New York City's world renowned Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute fund their own charity out of the doctors' pockets to arrange memorable events for the young terminal patients they treat. That was the source of the unannounced visit to see Dale in the 90s at Richmond.

Today, many of the drivers, as we know, also have their own charitable foundations that stage events for worthwhile causes.

Recently, when I did my post on the Petty family's Richmond friend, Hugh Hawthorne, I noted Kyle Busch also as a supporter of Victory Junction Gang Camp. This listing comes from the camp's current pages:

Victory Junction is proud to have the support of some of NASCARs best and most talented Sprint Cup Series drivers. Whether making a donation, attending a fundraising event, helping out with a public service announcement or playing with the kids during a NASCARnival Night at camp, this special group of drivers has ignited our campers smiles and fueled their spirits. Victory Junction is proud to have the following drivers as a part of the Victory Junction support crew:

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Founder
Kurt Busch Founder
Kyle Petty Founder
Michael Waltrip Founder
Richard Petty Founder
Tony Stewart Founder

Aric Almirola
Bobby Labonte
Brad Keselowski
Brian Vickers
Carl Edwards
Casey Mears
Clint Bowyer
Dave Blaney
David Gilliland

Denny Hamlin
Elliot Sadler
Greg Biffle
Jamie McMurray
Jeff Burton
Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson
Kasey Kahne
Kevin Harvick
A.J. Allmendinger

Martin Truex Jr
Matt Kenseth
Reed Sorenson
Ryan Newman
Scott Speed
Travis Kvapil
David Stremme
Kyle Busch

Cheers to all of our heroes who reach out to help others.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"

On track, not many would disagree that he comes off as entitled and disrespectful (although always entertaining) but I have heard a LOT about Kyle's nicer side off the track to have realized it can't be an act. He even took part in a charity book drive initiated by a young fan, which never really got any publicity but from all accounts, I heard he took personal interest and time out of his schedule to do it.