Jay Lovato’s battles are waged in marble buildings, in front of men in black suits and power ties. That doesn’t make them any less deadly than the battles we fight out on the edge of known space. Most of us could never fight his battles. There are powerful people on Earth who want us disavowed entirely, and he fights them every day. On the networks. In the halls of Congress. On the streets of small towns all over America. Jay has adapted to his battlefield, and his calm smile and ability to put even the smallest children at ease has kept all of us in the game far longer than we would have without him. He works every day to be the gentle giant of Earth, the example people to think of when they hear the word Cowboy. He’s fought that battle for decades, and he’s fought it well. We all owe him for that.