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JOSEPH KINCANNON

My father-in-law worked for NASA back in the 1960′s. Before sending a man to the moon, they practiced their lunar exploration exercises in Arizona. One day they noticed an old, native American man watching them at work. The astronauts approached the old man and explained to him what they were doing. They told him they were planning to send a man to the moon, and asked if he would care to write a note in his native language that they could take to the moon. The old man nodded his head and wrote something in Navajo. The NASA guys were unaware of what the note said until they got back to Houston when they had it translated. The note read, “You better watch these guys, they’ll try to steal your land.”



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