Your father was a good man. Growing up without him is going to be hard. It's going to hurt. You'll feel alone, out to sea with no shore in sight. You'll wonder, "Why me?" or "Why him?" Remember, you have a warrior's blood in your veins. The code that made your father who he was is the same. That'll make you a man he'll admire and respect. Put your pain in a box. Lock it down. Your father liked those people in the painting. We are men made up of boxes, chambers of loss and triumph, of hurt and hope and love. No one is stronger or more dangerous than a man who can harness his emotions and his past. Use it as fuel, as ammunition, as ink to write the most important letter of your life. Before he died, your father asked me to give you this poem by Tecumseh. I told him I'd fold it into a paper airplane. And, in a way, I guess that's what I'm doing, sailing it from him to you.
Live your life that the fear of death. Can never enter your heart.Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others and their views. And demand they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and service to your people. When your time comes to die. Be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death. So that when they come they weep and pray. For a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song. And die like a hero going home.
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