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Jack henderson Jack Henderson is his name, 91 years old, very skinny, with a very dull sense of humor. He tells me his stories of when he worked in the army over in Europe, but sometimes he has to stop as it brings back too many bad memories. Jack has a bald head but has the odd grey, he has a huge freckled nose with big kind brown eyes. He has had a hard life as his dad died of a heart attack at 45 when he was 10, and his mum sent him off to military school as she thought it would be good for his discipline. When Jack was 14 he was training with the military and when he was 16 he had to go and fight in World War 2. Jack was quite worried about his decision but he knew he had to do it for his country. What was scaring him the most was the thought of death, himself and his friends. It was scary, daunting, worrying, but he had to do it. He told me when he was over in Europe he met his one and only the lady he was prepared to spend the rest of his life with.....Her name was Dorothy Hutsen. Jack and Dorothy first met when they were 18 at a local pub in Belgium. Jack and Dorothy got to know each other very well over a beer and a shandy whilst he was living over in Europe but as any soldier does he has to fight in War. He had to leave and go to fight in Germany, he really didn't want to leave and say his final goodbyes to Dorothy so she offered to come along. “Dorothy, you know this is a very dangerous decision you could be killed or even taken?” he said with a worried look on his face. “Yes I know Jack, but I could be a good help over there and I don't want to leave you”, she replied. Jack and Dorothy left for Germany and held the thought in their minds that this could be the last time they ever came back to Europe. During the war in Germany there was many things he wasn't too keen on. Guns, Riffles, trenches and everywhere you went you could have been killed. Jack and Dorothy felt themselves becoming a lot closer so they thought would make it official, Jack Henderson proposed to Dorothy Hutsen on the 25th of June 1941. The wedding sounded amazing! Jack described Dorothy as the most wonderful, beautiful and spectacular thing he had ever seen. The wedding was described as the best thing he had ever witnessed. But suddenly his voice hardened and his eyes filled with tears as he told me how Dorothy was brutally shot dead in the fighting field when they were attacked by the German soldiers. Jack has never been the same ever since and never got remarried. Jack will never forget some of the great memories he shared with Dorothy, and he knows that he will never meet someone so great as she was the love of his life.