Duck and Cover

One more thing: In the week leading to my departure, when my friends would wish me "safe travels," and advise that I "keep [my] head down," I retorted by referring to the 50s' civil defense slogan "duck and cover." Well, here I am in the Green Zone and what do we have every 100 feet or so but yellow concrete shelters labeled "Duck and Cover Bunker." Truth is stranger than, uh, irony.