Monday, November 02, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.
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Veterans in the Rio Grande Valley are making a last-minute to persuade voters to say "yes" to Proposition 8 on Tuesday.
The ballot measure would allow amend the State Constitution to allow Texas to partner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to build hospitals.
The Lone Star State has more than 1.7 million military veterans and nine Veterans Affairs hospitals.
For decades, veterans along the in the Rio Grande Valley and deep South Texas have had to travel several hours to San Antonio for many medical procedures.
In January, the Veterans Administration announced that it will open a $40 million dollar clinic at the University of Texas Regional Medical Education Center in Harlingen.
Veterans across the Valley have been asking their neighbors for support of Proposition 8.
"If this hospital is not for the older vets, we’re doing it for the younger guys see because their sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Mike Escobedo with the Veterans Alliance. “The best thing that Texas voters can do for these young men and women is bring them health care.”
