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Lighting a third GI's cigarette on one "C" ration match, or one flame on a Zippo lighter was bad luck. The match had to be put out, and another one was lighted, or for the zippo, the lid shut, then re-opened and lighted again for the third man. If only one match was available, due to a number of circumstance's (rain for example); or the zippo was out of fluid...then the third GI's cigarette was lighted anyway; then we'd all look around to see...wait for a few minutes to see who was gonna get shot or what tank was going to hit a mine, or what new "nasty" orders were coming down the pike, etc. It was considered either poor taste or bad luck to talk "out loud" of who was gonna get it next (killed or wounded). That kind of talk "could" cause a fist fight. You didn't light 3 GI's cigarettes from the same match.

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