Theodore Christjohn

You understand what, Eagle Feather's about. One of the highest awards a warrior can have, you know. And that's what we're doing. Right now for the last two pow-wows here, we've been - well this one coming up also - we're honoring all the vets. World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq. You know, everyone we're trying to get, you know. And... that makes me feel good to see them come out. So happy. I try to feel happy anyway, you know. If somebody smiles it's good, you know. I know there's something good with them, you know. Help them - I don't want to see them going through the things I went through. How, where, where I went. How I went. To get where I'm at, you know. Cause that's uh, that was a struggle. And yet today it's still just as hard, you know. Nothing comes easy. You've gotta work for it, you know. You've gotta stay with it all the time. It goes off to the side sometimes. You don't go along with it off to the side. You try to stay with it. Where your... area's going, you know. You know, yes, it does help me out a lot with those pow-wow and everything. You hear the drumbeats. You hear everything. You see them little kids out there. Little kids see maybe - might be their uncle, grandpa, somebody, getting a recognition with their Eagle, where, sometimes the only thing you hear is, you know, from the, you know in a parent's, like we don't tell the children what happened, you know. But then, once they see your Eagle Feather, they'll understand what's going on.