here is a 71 year old navy vet (my popi is a navy vet too)

that fema is kicking OUT of the trailer they provided him (THREE MONTHS AFTER katrina). my questions are why (he wants to know why too) and wtf are they planning on DOING with the trailer after they yank it from him? oh, and he has CANCER too. i forget to add that part.

please click on the link in the title cause there are some wicked cool pictures of mr lake AND his eighteen year old cat! i love mr lake's frog tee too!

FEMA, CANCER GANG UP ON VET

It wasn't until almost three months after Katrina that Larry Lake finally got
into a FEMA trailer, which he now shares with some of the nine cats he and his
family saved from the hurricane. Now, he says FEMA is threatening to take his
trailer away.
WAVELAND, Miss. – At 28, Larry Lake was among sailors on the USS Tutuila who
stared the Russians down when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went
mano-a-mano over Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
He beat cancer once and he’s fighting it again. He rode out the deadly
devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Like the cards he and his buddies ponder in the poker games at their beloved VFW
Hall over in Bay St. Louis, Larry Lake takes what life deals him and makes the
best of it. Yessir, aye-aye.
But he’s having a little trouble these days with some news from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency: FEMA workers will be coming soon to tow away the
30-foot travel trailer where he has lived since a few months after Katrina's
waters overtopped his little house.
“They’re saying I don’t deserve a trailer,” says Lake, a tall, wizened
71-year-old with the rolling, bowlegged gait of a man who spent 23 years below
decks wrenching on engines in Uncle Sam's Navy.
He is far from clear on the reason for that, and FEMA has so far not given its
side of the story, but here’s what Lake and his relatives do know.
When Katrina came, Lake was living in an in-law apartment at his daughter’s
little compound on Wood Street and Central Avenue in Waveland, an easy jump shot
from the CSX railroad tracks.
The family -- Larry, his daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, nine cats, two
kittens and four dogs -- fled to the higher ground of a contractor friend’s
warehouse on Highway 90. “We saved everybody,” Lake says. “We stayed there five
days before anybody even came by to see anything.”..............

.........An inquiry to FEMA on the Lake case at first brought doubt that any information
could be divulged because of privacy concerns. On April 20, an agency spokesman
said he would try to get answers to a list of questions presented by MSNBC. As
of April 24, there had been no response.
Lake and his family have contacted Rep. Gene Taylor’s office and say the staff
of the Bay St. Louis congressman, who lost his own home in Katrina, has been
supportive, promising to get into the act if needed.
But Lake expects to get a letter soon telling him of FEMA’s plans to collect the
trailer. “The man who called said I can appeal,” he says, showing visitors
around the property and slapping black gnats off his neck in the withering heat
of the midday Mississippi sun. In an instant his gentle, grandfatherly patience
is gone and the blood boils to the surface of his well-weathered and finely
veined face and you know Larry Lake isn’t going to fold this hand.
“I said, ‘Look, you SOB, I’m not appealing anything anymore.’”.........