Max Keene seemed to have lost everything to Hurricane Katrina, but he got a piece of his life back early Halloween morning. Keene's wife, Vera Smith, was killed by a hit and run driver in the chaos following the storm, and her body went unburied for days - until he and his neighbors took it upon themselves to construct a tomb for her right on the New Orleans sidewalk. Images of Smith's makeshift grave and unforgettable epitaph, "Here lies Vera. God help us", appeared in newspapers and television broadcasts all over the world and became one of the symbols of...