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D-Day Veteran Set to Marry Fiancée After 70 Years of Separation

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Roy Vickerman of the United Kingdom will marry Nora Jackson, his former fiancee from 70 years ago after wartime trauma tore them apart.

After meeting in school in 1940, the couple soon became engaged, but as wartime fell upon England, they were separated. Vickerman went on to become a D-Day veteran and even fought in the Battle of the Bulge, as reported by the Daily Mail.

He and Nora picked up where they left off in their engagement after the war, but soon Roy experienced what is now recognized as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

“I wanted to be on my own, I couldn’t handle it. Nora stayed with me as long as she could, but in the end I wanted to be on my own and she gave me the ring back,” he told the Daily Mail.

However, when he called into a local BBC radio show, he was given Nora’s address again and took a taxi to her house after a week. Finding Nora a widow and still happy to see him on her doorstep, the pair continued their relationship.

Now, the original ring from 1940 is back on Nora’s finger and the couple has a wedding to plan, only 70 years after their original plans!