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"I didn't want him to go" - Jan recalls night out with her son before he left to serve in Iraq

Jan Procter, whose son Michael Tench was one of the youngest soldiers to die in Iraq, tells Jeremy Vine why the song You Raise Me Up by Westlife brings back happy memories of her son on a night out together before he left to serve his country. Part of Songs My Son Loved, a series speaking to the mothers of soldiers who have died in conflict.

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