A World War II veteran who lost touch with his teenage sweetheart has
reconnected with his old love, popping the question for the second time —
70 years later.
For decades, Roy Vickerman, 90, wondered what had happened to the young
woman he met in school in the 1940s and later proposed to when he was
only 18 years old. But shortly after their engagement, he went off to
war, where he was shot by a Nazi sniper. When he returned home to
England, he was a different man, he said, and the couple broke up.
"I had what they now call post-traumatic stress," Vickerman, from
Hartshill, Staffordshire, in the U.K., told TODAY. "I had been abroad
and I was wounded. I just went to pieces. So I called the engagement
off, which I regret deeply."
That was in 1946, and the pair went their separate ways, each eventually
marrying someone else and starting a family. All the while, Vickerman
held onto a photo of his first love, Nora Jackson, and the engagement
ring that he had given her.
"Occasionally I wondered how she was, but I never did anything about
it," he said.That all changed when he called into a local radio station
last year to share his story.
The producers at DJ Graham Torrington's Late Night Love show, a BBC
program, quickly set out to find Jackson, and reconnect the
long-separated couple. With a little push from producer Andy Swift,
Vickerman went to Jackson's address.
His plan was to drop off flowers and apologize for their breakup, and
then return home."I came down in a taxi, and knocked on the door, and
Nora came to the door," Vickerman said. "And she said, 'I thought I'd
never see you again, what a beautiful surprise.'
And she put her arms around me and gave me a lovely kiss and she said,
'Hold me.' And it was very touching. I really didn't think I was going
to get that treatment. I thought I was going to get a black eye!"
The couple talked for hours — Vickerman eventually realized he should go
outside and tell the taxi to leave — and learned that while both of
them had gone on to have happy marriages, their spouses had since passed
away.
Jackson had been a widow for 12 years, and Vickerman's wife had died in
2012.They made plans to see each other again in a few days.
"Four days later, I came down again," Vickerman said. "Four days became
three days, three days became two days, two days became one day, and now
I see her every day. We have dinner together every night. We still love
one another just like we did before."
Jackson told TODAY she immediately recognized Vickerman when he knocked on the door.
"It was just lovely. It was wonderful," she said. "We were so delighted to see each other. It's a real love story."
Vickerman celebrated his 90th birthday last month, and on that day he
proposed once again to Jackson, with the same engagement ring he had
presented her with so many years ago.
The couple hasn't set a date yet; they said they're in no rush."We're
going to see what happens," Jackson said. "We want to enjoy life."
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