Cultural Diversity

“Cojone EH,” it said. This caused cultural diversity in our conversation with Iraqi civilians, some of whom had driven from their villas this hot Sunday morning for a bit of real life, very dangerous battlefield tourism. There was a little difficulty in translating cojones as “balls”. We wondered why “EH” ‘ if they were indeed the tank commander’s initials ‘ would name his tank after only one testicle. The Iraqis wanted to know why a soldier would call his tank a ball at all.