Here's a graphic from the Facebook page making this point: But there's no question that such actions happen every day from coast to coast to incredibly negative and hurtful effect - and they transcend kids emotionally brutalized about their sexuality, as Joe understood. He was bullied for his sexuality.We'll never know if bullying was the specific cause of Jadin's death, since he reportedly left no suicide note. Jadin, who took his own life in early 2013, due to relentless bullying, at school and on social media.

This journey is in remembrance of Joe and Lola's 15 year old son. Here's the simple description of Joe's goal as seen on the Joe's Walk for Change Facebook page: Joseph Bell is walking across America to educate anyone who will listen about the lasting effects of bullying. Photos and the extraordinarily moving details below.

Now, his loved ones say, he's continuing his walk with Jadin. Joe didn't reach his destination: He was killed in an accident on a rural Colorado highway that's resulted in a charge against a truck driver. He launched Joe's Walk for Change, a cross-country trek intended to raise awareness about bullying - behavior with which Jadin, who was gay, had been victimized. When Jadin Bell hanged himself at age fifteen earlier this year, his dad, Joe Bell, did more than mourn.