Secret Weapon

Have you heard the story of the two astronauts who were preparing for a trip to the moon? It seems that the pair had been running through some lunar procedures on a Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. The site had been chosen because the terrain there was similar to the surface of the moon. During the course of the practice exercises, the Navajo Chief arranged to meet with the astronauts. At the meeting he told them that, according to legend, some Navajos had once gone to the moon many years before. The Chief said he would like to send them a message and asked the astronauts if they would deliver it for him. The spacemen agreed and, since the Navajo language is not a written one, the chief spoke his message into a tape recorder. Later, the astronauts asked an Indian language expert to write down the translation. The translation read: “Watch out for these two. They’ll try to make a treaty with you.”