I had the privilege of knowing Teddy Draper Sr. and to learn his story over the last few years. He passed away on December 16, 2017.
I am a writer and yet he taught
me about language. Not only how it was
used with courage and bravery by the Navajo Code Talkers in the pacific in
World War II.
I learned from Teddy Sr. that
language truly can be sacred. Words are
not just words but they carry the power of the actual things they
represent.
He said, “It is
by our language that the Navajo People know who they are, how we are related
and where we come from”.
I will always remember the time I spent with him.
It is a sorrow to know he has passed. And a comfort to know he left quietly with
his family around him.
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