Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey is an NPC, and the owner of Thunder Gas in West Point, KY. He is alive.

Biography
Jack Dorsey's upbringing in rural Kentucky was not unlike most others; he received a minimal education, was devout in his faith of Christ, and began callousing his hands with the work of grown men long before he was one.

The draft from the Vietnam conflict pulling millions of young men into war, Dorsey volunteered at his first opportunity. Enlisting to escape the monotony of Bible Belt manual labor at the age of eighteen, Dorsey joined the U.S. Army as an infantryman, and served his first tour in Vietnam in on the heels of the Tet Offensive of 1968. The months were rife with combat, and the young man, who'd been rushed through combat, experienced the deaths of many of his comrades. However, unlike most, Dorsey raised his hand once more, and served an additional three tours of duty.

His uncanny skills as a marksman resulted in him being assigned as a squad designated marksman, and through the rifle's glass he ended many Vietnamese lives. Haunted by their ghosts, and unknowingly exposed to the lingering effects of exposure to Agent Orange, Dorsey served another sixteen years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Sergeant First Class in the Summer of 1984.

For the decades that passed, he kept in close contact with many of his former colleagues, notably Sammuel Jaggen Sr. Dorsey and his wife, Phyllis a native of Elizabethtown, married in 1986, settling in West Point and opening a small-time Gas Station to supplement his income via disability from the newly researched side-effects of herbicidal chemical exposure.

The two ran the shop together, taking annual vacations to Daytona Beach, Florida, until Phyllis passed away from heart disease in 2004. Dorsey turned inwards, spending most of his time in the store, or a deer-stand. The onset of occasional bouts of PTSD, which he at first vehemently denied, began to be semi-effectively treated by medications supplied by the VA. However, in times of severe stress, the symptoms reappear as intense periods of psychosis and flashbacks that can be recognized and managed by the man by simply staying in the home and looking inwards.

In 2015, a phone call from Sammuel Jaggen Sr., by now a close friend and occasional drinking/gambling partner, raised an interesting proposition. Jaggen Sr's son of the same name was in desperate need of a more relaxed environment to call home. Dorsey empathized deeply with the young man, a disabled Afghanistan veteran who shared his shell-shocked affliction, and Dorsey eagerly accepted the offer. The two rely on one another heavily, and are the sole employees of Thunder Gas.