Dying
Veteran’s Emotional Last Request And the VA Team that made it happen By
Steve Goetsch, Public Affairs Specialist, South Texas Veterans Health
Care System, San Antonio Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Like
many other young men in the late 1960s, Roberto Gonzalez answered when
Uncle Sam called. He was drafted by the Army for service in June of
1969, a week after finishing school. Gonzalez, from South Texas, found
himself going to Army basic training instead of working on the family
ranch and going to summer graduation parties. Gonzalez was a member of
the 25th Infantry, and on one mission, was selected to be on point
during a patrol. What he didn’t know was they were walking into an
ambush of North Vietnamese soldiers lying in wait. They sprung up from a
trench, firing on the 14-man squad. With Gonzalez on point, he took the
brunt of fire, being hit three times: through both lungs, a bullet
hitting and shattering his leg below the knee, and the last striking his
abdomen, fragmenting and hitting his spine, creating the shrapnel that
led to his paralysis. - See more at:
http://www.va.gov/HEALTH/NewsFeatures/2016/July/Dying_Veteran_Emotional_Last_Request.asp#sthash.HWH4ZnCk.dpuf
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