Cash gift lets Ky. Guard members come home

[unhappycamper]

Cash gift lets Ky. Guard members come home
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Apr 5, 2008 17:17:25 EDT

STURGIS, Ky. — A cash gift from a western Kentucky businessman will give a group of Kentucky National Guard soldiers a little time at home before their deployment.

The 500 members of the 201st Engineer Battalion are training in Wisconsin before a 10-month deployment to Afghanistan.

A donation of $49,000 by Bill Baird to a charity fund for the soldiers will allow them to go home for six days.

Baird is the founder and owner of Saturn Machine and Welding Co. in Union County.

His gift along with the donations already raised will provide the $60,000 needed to bus the unit’s 500 soldiers from Wisconsin home to Kentucky on April 25. The Army does not pay for pre-deployment trips.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_cashforguard_040508/

[babylonsister]

1. Now that is generosity on a grand scale to impact so many.

Mr. Baird is a patriot! :patriot: