Remembrance – silverfox175

British merchant navy flag, with poppy – Ruby Princess flew the Red Duster.

We anchored off the island of Lifou (New Caledonia) at 9.00 am on the 11th November, and many of us went ashore via tender.

Maureen & I and our friends were walking to a lookout point when we heard the sound of a trumpet, and turned to see the ship – it was 11.00 am so we stopped and faced the ship, as did a number of other passengers from the Ruby Princess. We were a small group of strangers (other than our two friends) that had suddenly come together in a common desire, and so focused on the ship.

The group of about ten strangers didn’t move until the sound of the ‘clear’ at the end of the minute’s silence, all of us locked in our own thoughts of those who sacrificed their ‘today’ for our ‘today’.