US Army tweets :
Aces up!
https://twitter.com/usarmy/status/1333821380450770947?s=21
Guy shoots an ace of spades in half edgewise. Ace of spades symbolizes death, right?
It did to the VC.
If you like to gamble, I tell you I’m you’re man,
You win some, lose some it’s all the same to me,
The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say,
I don’t share your greed, the only card I need is,
The Ace Of Spades.
1st paragraph on a piece on Global Security.org on the Ace...
The Ace of Spades is the card of death. When the Apex or point of the Spade points up in the reading it means a conclusion, an ending. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “The Suicide Club” (1878), the Ace of Spades is the “sign of death” in a secret society whose members submit to be killed if they draw the Ace of Spades from a pack of cards during a club meeting. The Ace of Spades has been employed on numerous occasions in the theatre of war. In the Second World War, the soldiers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the American 101st Airborne Division were marked with the spades symbol painted on the sides of their helmets.