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I'm Claire Reed and this is episode 4 of Beyond Today's special series Deadliest Day. I keep thinking of something Peter Sherlock's mum Rhonda said to me. It just pops

into my head from time to time, especially whenever we're heading to and from interviews, because it really touched me.

She asked how my producer Heidi and I were doing, hearing all these stories of violence and emotional trauma and loss.

At the time I laughed awkwardly and said,

oh, you know, it's our job.

But it was kind of her to think of us,

even when she still feels her own pain from almost losing her son

and putting him back together when he came back from Afghanistan.

And it's taught me something about how she's dealt with trauma,

and how Heidi and I have dealt with secondary trauma.

We talk about it, we ask about it.

We ask after each other.

The guys from 9 platoon have been telling us they talk about it too, or rather that they banter about it.

So how does that work?

Well, we're taking you for a drink now with Peter Sherlock in a pub in Salisbury near where he lives.

Matthew Rounding is with us too in his bike leathers, and another former rifleman called Paul

Jacobs, who was in a different platoon, but also at Bob Wishton in 2009. As you'd expect they don't hold

back with the swearing. So I've got Sherlock's name on my bum.

Do you?

I've got Winston Churchill on my right calf. I've got a pair of eyes

tattered on my ass. I've got a soldier in Afghan on my back, full picture. I've got

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