Good Luck Charm

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Mr. Fitzmaurice had a good luck charm with him during the war. He tells us what it was and how he felt it got him home safely.

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Interviewer: I got the sense in that last sentence that perhaps you had some sort of a good luck superstition or ritual that you did if you, like, buy, I shouldn't say buy one, you'd want to buy one. Was there a ritual that you would performed? Tell me?

There was with me.

Interviewer: Ok, what was that?

I embrace Catholicism. My mother gave me a crucifix and she said, "You keep that with you and you'll be safe." I kept that with me, and I remember, and I checked, that was the first thing I did when I got on the air craft, make sure I had that. That was my good luck charm. I don't know whether the other guys did, I'm sure they did. I didn't have it this day and I thought, "I've left that on my table." I told the, the captain, I said "I got to go. I got to go back, left some notes, left some books, got to go back to my, to the...", he was madder than a son of a bitch but I went, because I felt that, that's my good luck charm. That's going to get me home. And, and it did, well I don't know whether it did, or not, but upstairs, it sure as hell helped and I don't know whether others did because they didn't relate that, any of that to me.

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