Lucky Charms/Heirlooms?

[Nfld Sapper]

I have a republic of Newfoundland flag that I have taken everywhere I have gone.

It even flew a brief stint on my vehicle until the troop warrant seen it.

"21 newfie take that ______ thing down,out"
He thought it was funny however.

Wouldn't happen to have been on a RG-31 would it?

 

[Sig_Des]

OK,

I know that those lucky charms are important to people, and probably always has existed in different style over the years. I never have been into lucks or out of luck believes, so i cannot tell that I have such of those.

the thing I can get as close as a lucky charms would probably be either my dog tag that I got from my dad when I was enrolled the first time in 1992 and that I still have, or my wedding ring...that i have never took off since 2000.

That's why I made the topic with Lucky Charms/Heirlooms.

Believe me, a piece of metal and a book probably wont make a difference, one way or another, but like Teflon said. It's a piece of home that you carry with you, and think about the people there.

 

[X-mo-1979]

Wouldn't happen to have been on a RG-31 would it?

naah coyote.

 

[X-mo-1979]

That's why I made the topic with Lucky Charms/Heirlooms.

Believe me, a piece of metal and a book probably wont make a difference, one way or another,

Pfffffftttt...that aint what tv shows of my youth taught me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver

It even has a name "MacGyverisms."

"In it, he manages to cut the ropes binding him to a chair using a pine tree air freshener, uses an ordinary tube sock as the pulley for a zipline, and somehow repairs and hotwires a nonfunctional truck using a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray and a turkey baster."

 

[Roy Harding]

I have a little polar bear (about 10" high), wearing a Canadian flag vest, and a "Mountie" hat.  He has a music box in him which plays "Oh, Canada".  My oldest kid gave him to me when I first deployed to Iran in '88 (my son was seven, then). 

Since that time, "Canada Bear" has been EVERYWHERE with me.  Canada Bear has been kidnapped and held for ransom by Brits, Dutch, and Czechs.  (He was ALWAYS rescued).  He's been frozen in the arctic, and he's borne the heat of numerous deserts.  He's never deserted me.

On one particularly lonely Canada Day, two Canadian soldiers sat drinking CC all by themselves in a foreign city.  We didn't have a recording of Oh, Canada to play (we DID have Stompin' Tom Connors' "On Canada Day, Up Canada Way" - which pissed off the neighbours after 20 or so LOUD repetitions) so we wound Canada Bear up and listened to that, instead.

Canada Bear is retired now.  He's dirty, and dusty, and just a little worse for wear (kinda' like me) - I built him a shadow box, and he resides on a wall beside a box containing my and my wife's medals, and another containing my Grandfather's.  He's done his time.

Little things like this are important to the individuals who carry them.

 

[geo]

I walked all over a strip of grass 15 meters long by 4 meters wide and somehow avoided stepping on 6 landmines.

I believe in blind luck alright......

Did you knowingly step into the minefield......
In which case that would be "dumb luck"! 

Regardless, glad you came out of it in 1 piece

 

[Gunner98]

This may sound silly but my second year in Petawawa, I bought a Dodge Neon.  My daughter was about six years old at the time and bought me a seahorse Beany Baby named Neon.  Neon has been on every BFT with me since then and to Bosnia and Afghanistan.  Add that to the mini rosary my mother's cousin had blessed for me.  Those are my "lucky" charms.

Did your Dodge Neon end up like mine?  I have heard anecdotes/legends of metal cigarette cases etc. deflecting bullets. 

 

[PMedMoe]

No, glad to say I was able to trade in my Neon when I got my Sportage.  The Bronco I had back in '92 didn't do quite so well.....

 

[HItorMiss]

I had with me a St Micheals medallion and a Native Medicine bag, The medicine bag given to me by a very dear friend . It was in the left upper arm pocket... To this day I credit it with saving my life, had the shrapnel gone 3 inches left or right it would have perforated my left upper chest to likely traverse through my cardiac box and well you all get the picture.

I had the nurse in KAF give it to me when they took my clothes off and I carried it into surgery with me. I refused to let them take it off me and finally the doctor ordered the surgical nurse to tape it to my hand. I woke up with it still there.

The Medallion has gone missing from me from time to time since then but always turns up whenI need a little luck on my side.