Elderly, homeless, institutionalized and DEAD

Mark Roper spent two weeks in St. Gabriel, La., this month, moving the bodies of Hurricane Katrina’s New Orleans victims into refrigerated trailers.

After watching the steady stream of corpses, Roper’s biggest surprise about the dead: almost all were elderly or homeless.

“The victims who were killed were mostly poor and homeless and institutionalized,” said Roper, vice president of Lincoln’s Roper & Sons.

“You really feel for these people. They just could not get out of the way.”

Roper was in Louisiana Sept. 1 through Sept. 14 as part of a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a federalized volunteer group of medical and forensics experts trained to identify bodies.

compassionate fucking conservatism...

(thanks to raw story...)

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