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52 The dot.commemoration generation We speak to four women about how creating memorial websites has helped them cope with bereavement
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THIS LIFE
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he scene below my Apache helicopter is one of devastation: angry flames blossom upwards from the scorched earth, and tracer slices through the air like razor blades. Our men run through the heat and dust, desperately looking for safe ground as they dodge bullets and fight for their lives. My job is to do anything and everything I can to help them get out safely.
And then I spot a valid target: a Taliban fighter brandishing a huge rifle, aiming it directly at the group of our soldiers.
There is a strange intimacy when I look at the man I am about to kill. I see his face, snatching glances up at me as he darts between trees, trying to hide.
I aim and curl my finger around the familiar cold trigger, watching for the impact. As he falls to the ground I feel satisfied. It was a good shot, but beyond that I've been trained not to think. I can't engage in any sort of emotion about taking a life, or the possibility of being killed myself.
On a daily basis, we flew through skies riddled with metal, avoiding machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades, dodging death. I knew that if my helicopter were to be hit, I wouldn't know anything about it. I'd be dead in milliseconds.
I never planned to become a pilot, but now I can't imagine doing anything else. I started out as an Army recruit at Combined Cadet Force at school, mainly to escape from my all-girls boarding house. I spent my gap year with the Royal Engineers, culminating in four weeks spent in a cramped tank with four men and no shower, lavatory or hairbrush. Just when I thought it would never end, I glanced up and saw a puff of smoke and a helicopter in the sky coming to pick us up. The seed was sown.
During university I looked into my options and discovered that flying helicopters for the Army was the only place where women are allowed into combat on the front line.
The selection and training were tough. After a year at Sandhurst where I was pushed to my physical and mental limits, I spent 12 months learning to pilot first a plane, and then a helicopter. Mastering it reassured me that I'd chosen what I was born to do, but learning the specifics of going to battle was harder. While
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I tactics and fighting the enemy came I easily to the boys, I struggled to I imagine what war would be like.
By the time I was selected, at 23, I to become the first-ever British I female Apache pilot, I felt the weight I of the men's expectations on me; I they thought I was intruding into I their territory and when I walked I into the bar on that first night I was I completely ignored.
Two years of Apache training I later, I went to Afghanistan. Our I aim was to help troops on the I ground to restore democracy, but I in reality we were needed to help I them fight their way out of trouble, I raining down rockets and missiles I on anything in their way.
Alongside the official job came a I new list of hurdles, the worst being I sacrificing every last inch of my I personal space for up to five months I at a time. I slept two feet away from I the next man down, shared I communal toilets and showers, ate I with them, peed into plastic bags, I flew and killed within feet of my male I colleagues. And as I walked through I the mess room every day, hundreds I of eyes bore into my back, my front I sodden with sweat from the heat of I the cockpit. The isolation would've I been unbearable, had it not been for I my close colleagues, who watched I my back, as I watched theirs.
When I came back to the UK, I was struck by the gaping chasm between my home life and military life. It is impossible to explain how it becomes normal to go flying every day, cheating your own death while dishing it out to others. Even for those thousands of soldiers who have seen Afghanistan first-hand, it is difficult to admit to each other what it is that we are asked to do in the name of freedom.
As I progressed through my tours of Afghanistan, getting married in between, I began to start adding up the cost of the human lives. The scale became almost too colossal for me to think about.
In my third and final tour, the tipping point came when a good friend was killed, with a tidal wave of sorrow, guilt and fear. From then on, I had to make a conscious effort not to consider the effects of what I was doing until I was home. I boxed my feelings away like Tupperware.
I'm now back on 'civvy street'. It was time to devote more of my life to my husband. A few months ago I switched on the TV — it was a documentary on the lives of females in Afghanistan. A girl ofl3 or 14 was explaining that her family used to risk being killed because she was being educated in secret. Now she goes to a proper school and plans to go to university. I realised she might now have some of the opportunities I've had and I felt satisfied. I have no regrets. Dressed to Kill by Charlotte Madison is published by Headline Review, Ј14.99*
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HOW NOW
here are plenty of things about fashion that could usefully be termed feel-good'. The buzz of a brilliant bargain, the angel touch of new cashmere. Then there's the thought that you might just be doing the right thing, making a difference to someone who could do with a helping hand. If you get all forms of feel-good in one gorgeous package, of course, you've pretty much hit the jackpot. So it is with Made, the fair-trade jewellery company that trains Kenyan artisans to turn sustainable local resources into things you and I want to buy. Genius.
Regular readers (hello Auntie Annette!) may recall that, some time ago, I went to the slums of Kibera in Nairobi to see this project at work. Three years on, I can hardly believe my eyes. Made, in one form or another, is everywhere. In Whistles, Monsoon, Matches and Phase Eight. In Jigsaw and Stefanel and Urban Outfitters. Did I mention Topshop? And then there's Oxfam Boutique. Made has made itself at home in virtually every corner of the British high street.
This is a phenomenal success story — hard won and a tribute to the unceasing work of the company's founder Cristina Cisilino. It hasn't been easy either. During the post-election uprising in 2007, when 1,300 people were killed, Cristina and her husband Gerson provided shelter for Made's workers in their Nairobi home, with beds and babies on every available surface. While many fled the country, they stayed, and the result is right there, right now, in the shops. Cristina, by the way, can spot beauty at 50 paces (I've seen her do it, and it's like watching a hawk on its prey), and she's a stickler for quality, too, in a way that only an Italian could be.
The company's success owes much to you, too. Not necessarily personally (unless you already own one of Made's 'paper-chain' necklaces
Turning sustainable local resources into things we want to buy, Made is all forms of feel-good in one gorgeous package
or a signature beaten-brass pendant), but more generally to a shift in the way many of us shop for fashion. The days of fast and frivolous seem long gone, which explains why Made, in all its splendid diversity, is proving so popular. Little wonder that cool girls are queuing up to get involved: Alexa Chung, Peaches Geldof and Pearl Lowe have already designed pieces for the label, while new recruits to the design team look set to include Francesca Versace (how fab will that be?) and Laura Bailey.
For anyone looking to make more of an investment, a top line called Made Unique, designed by the phenomenally talented Pippa Small, is introduced this weekend (otherwise, of course, you can always stick with the high-street collections, which start at Ј15). I have a reclaimed glass pendant by Made for Whistles — a large, lozenge-shaped slice of swirling mauve glass, edged in beaten brass and hung on a chunky chain like a talisman. It always gets compliments. In this season of statement necklaces, I know which statement I want to make. Don't you? made.uk.com
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Clockwise from above: Grace, in Givenchy, and Prince Rainier at a White House lunch with the Kennedys in 1961, described in the fashion press as a 'red-hot moment'; Grace's height meant that she could carry off the structural shapes created by couturier Madame Gres — this picture was taken by Snowdon in 1972; Grace in Balenciaga for a visit to Paris in 1959; the couple in
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Fiona and Neil Edwards with their children Ewan and Georgina, and, below, baby Emilia
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Remembering a life cut short
After her baby Emilia died suddenly last January, aged only nine months, Fiona Edwards built a memorial site that has attracted more than 3,000 visits. Fiona, 34, a primary school teacher, is married to Neil, 44, a property developer, and they live with their two older children Ewan, six, and Georgina, three in Barnt Green, near Birmingham. It happened so suddenly, only ten days after I took the photograph that we used for Emilia's memorial. Emilia was born with a rare cloacal abnormality [where the rectum, vagina and urethra are combined in a common channel] and was waiting for corrective surgery. But she was happy and healthy enough and on the day that she died was just a bit grizzly from teething. We'd picked up my son from swimming and I carried her into the house, still in her car seat, and started to make dinner. When Neil said, 'She doesn't look right,' we called 999, not thinking for a second that we'd lose her. But she died in my arms before the ambulance arrived. It was streptococcus A, a totally random bacterial infection. It was the sheer speed of it...
I don't know what I was looking for on the internet - an answer to why it had happened, perhaps? - but I came across Gone Too Soon and read some memorials. It's comforting, in
some ways, to think there are others in the same situation; but then you think, 'How awful. How can they cope?', forgetting for a second that it has also happened to you. We wrote Emilia's eulogy on what would have been her first birthday in April; it was something Neil and I wanted to write together.
When you start, you almost get hooked. In the middle of the night, when you're not sleeping... what else are you going to do? And I discovered how many other people are up at that time. The website comes alive at midnight and carries on all night: how many people have visited, how many candles have been lit... It got to the point when I had to say to myself, 'You have to let go of this.'
I have a core of about ten online friends who light candles for Emilia. It's comforting when people light a candle or send you their thoughts; the first time we went away for a weekend - which was incredibly hard - it helped me to think that somebody else was online, looking out for her. My other two children look at the site, too, and I show them Emilia's photos. They see Mummy crying
'It's comforting when people light a candle or
send thoughts'
sometimes and say, 'Do you want to write something for Emilia?'
She is buried in our local churchyard; we drive past every time we leave the house and shout, 'Good morning, Emilia. Goodnight, Emilia.' She's not a taboo subject; she's part of our family. People have said things like, 'When are you taking her photos down?' But she's not going to be put away.
Now I don't feel guilty if I don't go online every day. I might just pop on, light a candle, and say, 'I love you.' In some ways it's like tending

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