Jay Lovato grew up knowing he would lead men in his future. His family had for generations, and they trained him to be ready for it. The War made that leading role entirely different than anybody expected back then, but he had the training and the character to do it. I don’t say this lightly, you understand. He was a big, gentle, giant from a Navajo Nation that didn’t even have a military. But he fought the Shang when they came for us. He fought them and he survived everything they and their allies threw at us. I remember he always used to say that The War was not everything. It was just one of many things we had to do. And he always planned to go back home when those things were done. That’s one reason so many Cowboys followed him both during and after The War. He was the part of us that never stopped defending his home and his people.