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DEATH CARDS
Ordinary Aces of Spades? No!Â
"The Viet Cong were really superstitious. If you put an Ace of Spades on a dead body they believed if they touched that body they would die. So we used them, and it worked. Our company had a chaplain, this guy named Father Hagen, and he was about the only guy that seemed to really care about us. We got in a firefight one day, and he wanted to come out to where we were at in the firefight.Â
The chopper pilot was not going to take him but Father Hagen outranked the pilot so he made the pilot fly him out to where we were. Of course he's wearing his red and white robes and he's got white hair, and comes out of that chopper running and we all start shooting because everybody in that company was going to protect that Chaplain. As soon as he got out of that chopper and started running, the firefight was over. The VC left as soon as they saw him. Nobody got hit that day, not one guy got wounded, so yes, they were very superstitious."
Ordinary Aces of Spades? No!Â
"The Viet Cong were really superstitious. If you put an Ace of Spades on a dead body they believed if they touched that body they would die. So we used them, and it worked. Our company had a chaplain, this guy named Father Hagen, and he was about the only guy that seemed to really care about us. We got in a firefight one day, and he wanted to come out to where we were at in the firefight.Â
The chopper pilot was not going to take him but Father Hagen outranked the pilot so he made the pilot fly him out to where we were. Of course he's wearing his red and white robes and he's got white hair, and comes out of that chopper running and we all start shooting because everybody in that company was going to protect that Chaplain. As soon as he got out of that chopper and started running, the firefight was over. The VC left as soon as they saw him. Nobody got hit that day, not one guy got wounded, so yes, they were very superstitious."
