Bravo!

As already reported over at Stonekettle Station, a local businessman has ponied up the money for the Kentucky National Guard’s 201st Engineer Battalion to go on home leave prior to their deployment to Afghanistan.

While I'll be sending Mr. Baird a thank you card, his action put in mind of the following quote by one of our greatest presidents:

"Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause -- honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle."

Abraham Lincoln, December 2, 1863

Honor to you, Mr. Baird. Bravo.