"BATON ROUGE, La. -- Capt. Dale Dicharry, the commander of Homeland Security for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, has heard plenty of strange calls in his time in law enforcement, particularly here in south Louisiana. But this one beat all the others. Someone had called in about a wounded animal, and the call was coming from right in his own neighborhood. "He said, 'A wounded moose,'" Dicharry said. "I said, 'We ain't got no moose around.'""
"Kent Broussard, Dicharry's new neighbor, was a retiree who had just moved to Baton Rouge determined to fulfill his life's dream: to join the Golden Band from Tigerland at LSU. And he was learning to play, of all things, the tuba. Dicharry tells the story in the Broussards' living room, alongside his wife Dawn, Broussard's wife Cheryl and fellow neighbors Lynette Wilks and Barry Searles. They all immediately leap to Kent's defense. He wasn't so bad at the tuba that his playing was confused with moose noises, they say. It was just that confusion was natural; nobody in the neighborhood was expecting someone to be playing a tuba at all."
A retiree named Kent Broussard moved to Baton Rouge determined to join LSU's Golden Band and learned to play the tuba. Neighbors initially found his playing surprising and even reported it as a strange noise. Capt. Dale Dicharry recognized the source when a call about a "wounded moose" came from his own block. Broussard practiced on his porch, marched to build stamina, and adjusted his schedule to avoid heat. Neighbors embraced his effort, defended his performances, and took pride in his achievement as he pursued and achieved his lifelong musical goal.
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