Posted On: February 4, 2009, 2:22 pm CST

Posted By: William Cannon

My late wife & I live on a little island called Hoopers Island in the state of Maryland.
Hurricane Isabel came through and devastated our area.
Our house was left standing and we thought fixable.
A few months after the hurricane and $15,000.00 later the state inspector came through and told us we had to tear it down and build new.
He said the house could not be elevated without tearing it apart to meet new state guidelines.
To make a long story short the reason I am contacting you is to see if you might be able to steer me in the right direction.
My wife and I were moved out of our old house by FEMA and told we had to live in a trailer they brought down to us.
They were worried about the mold in our old house.
We lived in the trailer until November 2005 when we moved into our new home, (about 2 years).
My wife had become ill living in the FEMA trailer and woke up one morning in 2005 slurring her words and not being able to think straight.
I thought she had suffered a stroke.
I took her to the emergency room where they sent her to Georgetown University.
The prognosis was she had developed 7 brain tumors & lung cancer.
She was a non smoker.
We had told FEMA several times that the chemical smells in the trailer would give us headaches, burning eyes, & chest pains, but they told us it was because it was new & the smell would go away. They even sent down inspectors several times to test the air & told us everything was fine.
I met my wife when I was 15 years old and we married when I turned 17.
We spent our entire adult life together.
My wife died June 21, 2006 at the age of 54.
I have spent the last 2 1/2 years trying to control the grief that comes when your whole life is torn out from under you.
I have reached a point where my grief is turning to rage and I would like to see someone pay for killing my wife, but am being told I only had 2 years to file a form 95 claim after she died. Now I have some of the same symptoms my wife showed before she became very ill. I'm afraid this is going to kill us both before justice is done.
This can't be right. No one ever told me I had only 2 years to file anything after she passed.
I did not think there was a statute of limitations on murder and that's all this is, legal murder.
With FEMA knowing the formaldehyde was so deadly, why did they just sit by and let people die? I have been in the US Army most of my adult life & am very proud of it. I have seen 3rd world countries that would not treat their people like FEMA treated us.
Can you guide me in the right direction or maybe to someone I can talk with about this?
The government knew the formaldehyde was killing people and did nothing about it.
There's no way they should be able to get off scot free.