In Loving Memory of Daniel J Boccia
CARRY ON IN MY NAME
CARRY
ON
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Missions
ENZO SCHOLARSHIP
Our sweet Enzo lost his daddy on August 15, 2021. His life was altered in a way that will forever hurt our hearts.
Enzo will turn 2 years old on September 5, 2021 without his daddy by his side. His mommy, Evie, is beyond broken as are many people due to this tragic loss.
We are raising funds for Enzo to set up a scholarship account that Daniel had started. Please be generous in your donations and help us be sure that sweet Enzo will be taken care of.
RUMI LOU TRAINING
Daniel Jay Boccia lost his life on August 15, 2021. He had just purchased Rumi Lou to become not just his pet but to become a therapy dog. Please honor Daniel’ life by donating to this fund so that we can get Rumi Lou trained and certified as a working therapy dog.
This training will allow us to take Rumi Lou to prisons, recovery centers, hospitals and nursing homes to help heal hearts. This will also allow Daniel’s son to have a pet that he can grow up with and keep Daniel’s memory alive.
The Story
Daniel loved all music. He loved dogs. He loved BMWs and he loved his family with a fierce loyalty, especially the loves of his life, Idaira Taveras and his darling son Enzo.
His demons began when the pharmaceutical companies realized our government would not stop them from handing out pills like candy to children and that those pills didn’t need warning labels on the side saying, “May lead to heroin addiction.”
Daniel’s overdose death was not because he was weak. It was because we, as a society, have been induced to be insensitive to other people’s desperation and outcries – other people’s lives.
We don’t care enough that over 93,000 people died in the last 12 months as a result of the still largely ignored disease of addiction. We don’t care enough that the recovery center where he died after being there for less than 48 hours, costs $27,000 for a 6-week program and that the CEO didn’t even call the family after finding his lifeless body.
We don’t care enough that we lock up sick people or that a judge sentenced Daniel to 15 years on a mandatory minimum, not caring that these prisons are full of corruption, drugs, shanks, and gangs, that there was no treatment for him, no healthcare, no social development, and no demand to correct and repair.
We don’t care enough about the deeper meaning of a culture wherein a correctional officer tells him, “Inmate, your momma can’t help you now.”
We don’t care enough that he was shackled, tasered, pepper sprayed, tackled by the CERT team, and sent to solitary confinement for 4 ½ weeks for having an illegal cell phone that he got from an officer.
We don’t care enough that the day he was released from prison he left with a $35 card and his worldly possessions in a garbage bag.
We don’t care enough that Target wouldn’t hire him for a seasonal Christmas job and he couldn’t rent an apartment because of his label of being a convict.
And we don’t care nearly enough to even want to know that millions of Americans are treated this way every day.
Please consider donating to a scholarship fund for Enzo or one that will be used to train Daniel’s sweet Dalmatian puppy, Rumi Lou, to become a service dog for people in recovery and those in prisons.