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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1809447" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p>[ATTACH=full]31659[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This is Colonel Rochawansky, the man who saved the Spanish Riding School from the Nazis. The Nazis would take the horses for their art and the Russions who would have eaten them. He was the riding master of the school and he smuggled them out of Austria and with the help of General Patton got the stallions and the mares behind American lines. I saw this film The Dancing White Stallions as a child and was enchanted by it. Well, 40 years later he came to Texas to teach dressage and ended up in my hospital at the age of 94 sick and dying. He became so depressed and didn't want to live so we got horsemen and horsewomen nurses for him because he would just light up when talking abut horses and riding.</p><p></p><p>Finally after 5 months he was well enough to go home to England but in medical transport plane. His friends could not afford that so I said Just get us two tickets on British Airways and I will fly him home, my practice covered across internationa boundries because of the god samaritan act. He still had a feeding tube in his stomach. British Airways, wow, they have huge comforatable seats and real stewardesses. She asked if we would like a drink. I said no thnak you I am on duty and he said in a hearty voice I'll have a bourbon!</p><p>Gave a quiet little head shake to her No. But I ordered champagne and flushed his G tube with it. You have to flush the tubes with an effevescent substance. He was pretty happy when we flew over Ireland. Look I said, theirs Ireland. He said Ya. They have some good horses in Ireland but they are hard headed like the Irish. I could not believe how life had turned out. Here I was, flying across the world with this hero of my childhood.</p><p></p><p>Rocky lived two more years. He stayed in a care home and every morning his friends took him to the stable, pull along side the arena and he gave riding lessons with a bull horn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1809447, member: 42782"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Colonel Rochawanski.jpg"]31659[/ATTACH] This is Colonel Rochawansky, the man who saved the Spanish Riding School from the Nazis. The Nazis would take the horses for their art and the Russions who would have eaten them. He was the riding master of the school and he smuggled them out of Austria and with the help of General Patton got the stallions and the mares behind American lines. I saw this film The Dancing White Stallions as a child and was enchanted by it. Well, 40 years later he came to Texas to teach dressage and ended up in my hospital at the age of 94 sick and dying. He became so depressed and didn't want to live so we got horsemen and horsewomen nurses for him because he would just light up when talking abut horses and riding. Finally after 5 months he was well enough to go home to England but in medical transport plane. His friends could not afford that so I said Just get us two tickets on British Airways and I will fly him home, my practice covered across internationa boundries because of the god samaritan act. He still had a feeding tube in his stomach. British Airways, wow, they have huge comforatable seats and real stewardesses. She asked if we would like a drink. I said no thnak you I am on duty and he said in a hearty voice I'll have a bourbon! Gave a quiet little head shake to her No. But I ordered champagne and flushed his G tube with it. You have to flush the tubes with an effevescent substance. He was pretty happy when we flew over Ireland. Look I said, theirs Ireland. He said Ya. They have some good horses in Ireland but they are hard headed like the Irish. I could not believe how life had turned out. Here I was, flying across the world with this hero of my childhood. Rocky lived two more years. He stayed in a care home and every morning his friends took him to the stable, pull along side the arena and he gave riding lessons with a bull horn. [/QUOTE]
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