OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The Oklahoma City VA Health Care system is encouraging veterans to protect themselves during this flu season. For the next two weeks, it's hosting its flu and COVID vaccine clinic.  “Veterans are a very important tribe of people,” said Gail Diggs. “All their stories need to be heard, so they need to all stay healthy for that.”  LOCAL NEWS: Historic Blue Goose monument unveiled at Eldon Lyon Park Diggs served in the Navy for six years. Tuesday morning, she was at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center for an appointment and stumbled upon the clinic.  "I thought it would be a good idea to get one now,” said Diggs. “I do have grandbabies and I don't want to spread it forward in case I get sick."  She’s encouraging her fellow veterans to take advantage of the opportunity too.  The walk-in clinic at the OKC VA Medical Center is open on weekdays now through Oct. 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Veterans should bring their veteran ID card.  "We never know really if it's going to be a good season or a bad season. But, we want to keep our veterans from being hospitalized with the flu,” said Phillip Ybarra, a spokesman for the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System. “Some of our veterans are immunocompromised or maybe susceptible to getting the flu more easily."  LOCAL NEWS: Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at First Americans Museum Ybarra told KFOR that veterans can also go to their primary care physicians or walk into any of their community-based outpatient clinics to get their shots.  “Just walk in and request one, and they'll be able to get one there,” said Ybarra.  The OKC VA Health Care System cares for more than 70,000 veterans. Their goal is to get at least half of them vaccinated this flu season.