I didn't have any ties to Akron before moving here with my family and opening a business in 1995. I just fell in love with this place.

This will be an educational trip. I will stay with a host family and will get to go to embassies and schools over there to see how they do things. It will be a 20-day trip. I'm very excited about getting to go.

There's a tremendous amount of passion about this issue by family-business owners. On this, no stone is being left unturned.

Our soldiers have paid a tragic price to free over 50 million people. In the long term, their sacrifice is going to change the world.

We did a lot of research. We looked at Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio, and we finally decided on Akron.... My family was rebuilt here; our lives were rebuilt here.

History will look back and say it was very worthwhile.