WARRENSBURG, Mo. – From catered dinners to laundry service to afternoon Bingo, these are the services Prince Gilbert Revelle said make his home fit for a king.

“I’d like to see every veteran that served in the service who was honorably discharged to be able to come in here,” said Prince, a Navy Seaman First Class.

The 85-year-old WWII and Korean War veteran, who prefers his nickname Bud, moved to the Missouri Veterans Home in Warrensburg seven years ago when he became too feeble to live on his own.

“They gave that part of their lives to protect us and be in the service,” said Bud.  “To me it’s a pay back.  I think we deserve this treatment we’re getting.  It’s good.”

But Bud’s home and the six others like it in Missouri faced severe cutbacks due to $30 million in budget cuts over the last three years.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Necrotizing fasciitis. It’s making headlines after 24-year-old Aimee Copeland contracted the disease in a zip lining accident.

The Georgia graduate student has already lost a leg to the flesh-eating bacteria and will most likely lose her fingers. Her condition is a rare, but extremely aggressive disease that has a 73 percent mortality rate, according to Medscape Today. Tragedy strikes with the bacteria infects and destroys a layer of tissue under the skin called the fascia.

Dangerous bacteria

In an interview with FOXNews.com, Dr. Michael Lucchesi said varying types of bacteria can cause necrotizing fasciitis. The flesh-eating bacteria typically enters the body through a punctured wound. For Copeland, the creek where she was injured is a prime location where the bacteria typically lives.

This blog will sort of go all over the place today, because in all honesty there really isn’t a lot going on today, although there have been show showers across N MO along the 36 highway corridor this AM, but those have started to weaken a bit this afternoon. It’s been interesting watching the temperatures because there was quite a bit of sunshine for many areas from KC southwards this AM and as a result we’re seeing temperatures range from the mid 50s across N MO to near 70 close to the Sedalia/Clinton area as of this typing. A cold front came across the region last night and is allowing cooler/drier air to filter into the area, hence the reason why highs today will be running about 5° below average.