“Thank you for the Music: The Cape Town Military Tattoo 2012”
As the pipers and drummers, attired in their distinctive tartan kilts, sporrans and glengarries, exited the main arena through the Kat archway with its wooden block cobbles, the echoes of the wailing bagpipes, the thumping bass drums and the rattling tenor drums gradually died away.
For one brief moment, silence fell.
Published in the Reserve Force Volunteer of Summer 2013.