Seven White Crosses

The kit was all laid out, see. You’re supposed to check off the kit, but there were seven crosses. Now, nobody wanted to pick up those seven white crosses. Maybe only five, but there were seven. Seemed to be about right, all sitting there. So this one sergeant said to me, “You better pick them up. You guys are going to need them.” So, they were blank. But you know in everybody’s mental mind, they’re almost putting their name on those crosses. So we picked them up and gave them to the quarter stores, quartermaster stores. And it wasn’t long before they were used, alright. But that was something that sort of, all of a sudden, reality came through. But this fellow said, “You’ll need them.”