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.
You should not believe in Superstitions. Superstitions is the product of ignorance among people. Many superstitions are not true.
Yes, anybody that wishes to believe in superstitions can.
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People believe in superstitions because they are driven by fear.
Possibly because they were religious. People who are not religious do not normally believe in superstitions.
I do not believe they are true.
Because Vietnam war was fake and it never happened. Whatever teachers tell you about Vietnam War do not believe them.
Superstitions are beliefs supported only by rumor, not by factual observation. Rational people therefore do not believe such things.
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It has no survival value. People believe in in all kinds of things which others would consider superstitions. In most cases it does no harm.
They don't really. People who believe in superstitions are more prone to believe in the haunted houses thing than people who don't.
Baron von Steuben was I believe.