For you COMBAT vets. ( anyone else can answer too)

[HardJedi]

what did you DO for those air, earth, tress ?

[Sgt0811]

Before I went into MCRDSD I was visiting my grandmother in NJ. She had a Sacred Heart of Jesus blessed by a Catholic priest and she gave it to me. I am not Catholic but she was.
I carried it in my wallet while in Nam and every time I got a new wallet it was put in the new one. I carried it for over 35 years. I lost my wallet in 2002 while in the hospital for by-pass surgery. Guess I should get another one.

[decuervo]

I laminated a picture of my girlfriend (my wife now) to keep it safe from the rain and carried it in my left breast pocket. Still carry it in my wallet today.

[ridingcrops]

Sorry I didn't get back sooner but just saw this HardJedi.
I'm part Native American and we believe everything has a god so I would give a little prayer to the gods of all the elements to look after us when we went out. Don't know if it worked and not sure I believe it myself but it always seemed to help. At least it helped me think straight and gave me hope even it was false.

[crate78]

Been to Joe's Crab Shack lately, Dave?

BTW, our daughter lives in DC and several years ago when she needed a new car, she went to the Saturn dealer in Gaithersburg and bought a Saturn.

SF
crate

[kato811]

yea bullets

[WalkingMan]

More of my boredome and curiousity at work tonight.


I was just sitting here, doing nothing, and I came up with this question. I apologise if it has been discussed before.

so here goes.


While you were in the theatre of operations of the war or conflict you served in, did you carry a lucky charm of some sort with you? and if so, what was it?


Me personally, Only time I ever carried anything was when I was sent to Haiti in 1994 ( that hardly qualifies as a war or conflict, but there was SOME shooting) ANYWAY, what I carried for luck was a small braid of my girlfriends hair. She had cut a section about six inches long and braided it, and I carried it with me everywhere. Heck. I actually STILL carry it.



what about you REAL combat vets? any good luck charms from those times?

No.

When I arrived in-country, Viet Nam, I did have some personal effect with me, but when I left left my rear area (Dong Ha) and headed out into the bush to meet up with Bravo 1/3, who I served my tour with, I took zero personal effects with me, not even letter-writing gear.

[Sgt Leprechaun]

When I graduated Airborne school in 1984, we got little "St Micheal" charms. I wore that, with my dog tags, until it literally wore through the round hook that held it on the chain. Replaced it with another a few years back, which I still wear.

I'm Irish..so naturally supersticious....lol...

[FistFu68]

I CARRIED THOSE RED~SILK~PANTIE'S,I LIBERATED FROM THAT FINE;ROUND~EYE~DOUGHNUT DOLLY!KEPT THEM IN AN EMPTY~PRC.25~RUBBER BATTERY BAG!WOULD PASS AROUND TO FELLOW SQ.MEMBER'S FOR A LITTLE SCRATCH&SNIFF(LOL) OOHRAH!!!

[Zulu 36]

My good luck charm was coming home with my ass intact. I still carry that around too.

[outlaw3179]

A picture of my newborn son and on the other side a 9line laminated inside my left breast pocket. I guess it worked.

[Preacher]

for Vietnam, I had a Crucifix tattooed on my chest for luck. That's how I got the nickname Preacher.

SF, Preacher

[Sgt0811]

When I joined the Corps in '63 my grandmother, who was catholic, gave me something called the sacred heart. It was a little bigger than a quarter. I am not catholic. I carried it with me in Nam.
In 2002 I had heart surgary and my wallet which the sacred heart was in was lost in the hospital.
My mother-in-law (catholic) got me another on and I still carry it in my wallet.
I believe it not only got me thru Nam but the surgery too.

[HardJedi]

wow. can't believe this thread is still around. I started this thing a LONG time ago.

[BigPhil]

I wore a St. Christopher metal, and also had a small bible that my farther-inlaw had with him when he was a POW in the Philipines.