I was thinking of the time I was on UK leave from Brunei and sat with my Dad watching the fleet set sail for the Falklands. He watched the shots of crew practicing going to Action Stations and commented ominously, "Wait until they do it for real and then they'll know..." Was that really 40 years ago?
40 years! I realised that when I bought my Dad a pint in the Sergeants Mess a few days before my demob, it was only 33 years since he was a 19 year old signaller in HMS Forester, fighting with E boats off the Normandy coast. How time flies!