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Vietnam veteran Roberto Gonzalez's final wish was granted Saturday when he was reunited with his beloved horses -- Ringo and Sugar -- outside of a Texas VA hospital.

Gonzalez, of Premont, Texas, who was shot and paralyzed during the war, was wheeled outside the front doors of Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital in San Antonio where he was greeted by the horses he had raised for decades, mySA.com reported.

Gonzalez, who was one of the hospital's first patients when it opened in 1974, had asked his family to see his horses one last time. The family passed along the request to hospital staff who gladly obliged. Ringo and Sugar then made the 150-mile trip to the hospital to see him.

"Horses are his life," his wife, Rosario Gonzalez, told KABB. "We've been training and raising horses for 30, 40 years."

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Very cool....may the old warrior rest in peace.

That is very cool and Godspeed to Roberto.

I've had some horses that just did their jobs, but I've had a couple that related to me more like my Labs. They were special in several ways. I reckon this gentleman had a couple of ponies like that.