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This is episode six of Beyond Today's Special Series Deadliest Day.

I'm Claire Reed, and this is the final installment of the story of 9 platoon, sea company 2 rifles and their

10 year journey from one hellish day in Afghanistan.

If you haven't listened to the rest of the series, don't start here.

Go back to episode one and meet everyone there.

For the rest of you, here's episode six.

Oh, hello Claire, I'm fine, how are you? I'm good'm good thanks very well I was just calling to find

out whether you heard about the council seat I have indeed yesterday in fact just after

four o'clock found out yesterday that I will be a

counselor in my local area it is an uncontested seat day so it won't go to election.

Well so that's it so he'll just automatically a councillor?

Yes pretty much it would have been interesting to be an elected councillor, but I'm very, very pleased, very happy

that my nomination was successful and that I will have the opportunity to sit on the town council and serve my local community.

Lucy Aldridge has so much to give to her local community and her council role.

She's told me what she really wants is to use her voice to help others, and that's what

she's been doing ever since she lost her son William Aldridge that day, the 10th of July 2009.

She's fought for the others in his platoon,

and she used some of the money she got from the army

when William died to pay for Kevin Holt's first mental health treatment.

She's now wound down the William Aldridge Foundation, but she keeps the website

in the directory of services online and regularly posts veterans resources on social media,

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