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SPARKS — Veterans with Nevada roots who need residential care often find themselves stuck outside the state. 
 
One of those is Ernest Kimball, an Air Force veteran who lived in Nevada for 35 years and wants to come back home. He lives in a California veterans home, but he wants to live in the Northern Nevada State Veterans Home. 
 
“I have heard they are building a State Veterans Home at Sparks,” Kimball wrote in a July 5 letter to Nevada-based veterans officials. “As the state song goes, ‘Home means Nevada,’ I would like to end my days in the Silver State.” 
State officials broke ground Monday on what will be a 96-bed veterans home in Sparks. 
 
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