After Catastrophic Flood, This Small Town United To Help A 99-Year-Old Wwii Veteran Who Lost Everything

After Catastrophic Flood, This Small Town United To Help A 99-Year-Old Wwii Veteran Who Lost Everything

After Catastrophic Flood, This Small Town United To Help A 99-Year-Old Wwii Veteran Who Lost Everything As a World War II veteran, 99-year-old Leo Valente has seen his fair share of strife.  But when a devastating flood destroyed the home that Leo and his daughter Cheryl had shared for nearly 60 years, they knew they needed to turn to their community for help.  In an interview with Boston 25 News, Cheryl — a retired teacher from Stoneham, Massachusetts — relayed how quickly their lives changed on October 14.  “Water was just pouring and pouring and pouring, and I said ‘Oh my God,’ it was like a river pouring down, and then all of a sudden it started going down the walls, and then it went into the other room, and then it went into the kitchen,” Cheryl said, adding that the second floor appeared to collapse all at once after pipes burst upstairs.  The flood destroyed almost all of their belongings, including vital documents like their birth certificates and Social Security cards.  In the mids…