>Subject: Superstitions in the field
>From: tlacombe@shentel.net (Tom Lacombe)
>Date: 1/11/2004 2:10 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <4001aaf2.23276084@news.shentel.net>
>
>I was thinking about this today, and remembered, no one would dare be
>third on a match. Two things I kept with me were a little cross the
>chaplain gave us and a Saint Christopher medal a friend sent. I was
>wondering about good luck charms or the like that others might
>remember from Vietnam.
>
>

First time I saw a chaplain he gave me the little cross and I wore it my entire
tour and for years after I came home.

I woke up one morning after a big drunk and fight and it was gone. I thought
so much of it I went back looking for it but to no avail.

It is the only thing I ever wore around my neck with the exception of my dog
tags. And I guess it was lucky, I came home.

Bill Clarke