“Shipmates, this is not a normal announcement from some Admiral, this is a former skipper telling his former crew how very proud he is and that he has put the ship in for overhaul back home you leave in the morning. You will be home in seven days. Cheers could be heard for hours. The Admiral left as quiet as he arrived. The skipper told us to head home, he was going to bed.
Seven days later we are all in our dress uniforms, we are topside ready to moor. What we didn’t know was we were being given a hero’s welcome.
As we got closer to the pier, we were shocked to see 9 redheads, one short babe with black hair, a brunette, one of the red heads (my sister) had a sign, “Welcome Home Jones” and of course two beasts of men standing there all waving at us. The crew all turned to JR no words can explain the looks on their faces!
Jones fainted when he saw the sign!