2009.07.19: July 19, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - India: Science: Space: 1960s: Knoxville News Sentinel: That summer Armstrong walked on the Moon two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal
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2009.07.19: July 19, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - India: Science: Space: 1960s: Knoxville News Sentinel: That summer Armstrong walked on the Moon two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal
That summer Armstrong walked on the Moon two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal
A few weeks later, in a remote rural village in Rajasthan, India, as the full moon rose in the sky, a farmer came over and asked Stocky if it were true that a man had walked on the moon. Stocky said yes he had. "By acknowledging that, I lost all credibility with the villagers," he says. "I had spent most of the summer convincing them that the streets of America were not paved with gold. After the moonwalk, there was no hope."
In Nepal, a Brahmin cook asked Tucker to come to the landlord's porch for afternoon tea, where, says Tucker, "He asked me to please tell the gathering how we infidels could violate a goddess, Chundrama, the Moon. He dismissed me, shaking his head. Several days later there was talk of flooding on the Mississippi that he heard about on BBC International, and he was gleeful, showing me how we had been punished for violating Chundrama. We got no other news such as Chappaquiddick and Woodstock."
That summer Armstrong walked on the Moon two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal
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That summer two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal.
A few weeks later, in a remote rural village in Rajasthan, India, as the full moon rose in the sky, a farmer came over and asked Stocky if it were true that a man had walked on the moon. Stocky said yes he had. "By acknowledging that, I lost all credibility with the villagers," he says. "I had spent most of the summer convincing them that the streets of America were not paved with gold. After the moonwalk, there was no hope."
In Nepal, a Brahmin cook asked Tucker to come to the landlord's porch for afternoon tea, where, says Tucker, "He asked me to please tell the gathering how we infidels could violate a goddess, Chundrama, the Moon. He dismissed me, shaking his head. Several days later there was talk of flooding on the Mississippi that he heard about on BBC International, and he was gleeful, showing me how we had been punished for violating Chundrama. We got no other news such as Chappaquiddick and Woodstock."
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