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hiromichi
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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: Iraq |
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What does the last sentence below mean?
"We fight it one day at a time," said Capt. Phillip Ash, who commands Company K in the Third Battalion, Seventh Marines, which patrols central Ramadi.
"Some days you're the windshield," he said, "some days you're the bug."
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Iraq |
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| hiromichi wrote: |
What does the last sentence below mean?
"We fight it one day at a time," said Capt. Phillip Ash, who commands Company K in the Third Battalion, Seventh Marines, which patrols central Ramadi.
"Some days you're the windshield," he said, "some days you're the bug." |
The windshield is the part of the car that protects the people riding in the car from getting hit with bugs. A bug that gets in the way of the car gets splatted (that's what bugs do when they hit a windshield on a car going fast--it's slang; I'm not sure it's a "real" word) on the windshield.
So I think he means sometimes they are successful and sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they succeed in protecting, and sometimes they get hit. |
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: Iraq |
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Lorikeet, Thank you very much for your clear explanation.
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