Concerned Veterans of Louisiana Inc.
Concerned Veterans of Louisiana Inc.
111 Jenna Dr
Schriever, LA 70395
ph: 985-448-1790
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/Vietnam.html
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WHY A HEROES MONUMENT?
My name is Tommy Tabor of Thibodaux, LA. I am spearheading a group of veterans, firefighters and law enforcement officers to help build a Heroes Monument for Lafourche Parish. This initiative began in 1991.
We want the Heroes Monument to be a place where people can pay their respects to a deceased loved one in comfort and safety.
The monument we want to build would honor any and all persons from Lafourche Parish who entered the military but did not receive a dishonorable discharge -- as well as all Lafourche Parish firefighters and law enforcement officers.
To keep this monument under local control, I founded Concerned Veterans of Louisiana Inc. and approached the I.R.S. in Sept. 2002 to get the organization classified as a 501 C-3, nonprofit, charitable corporation.
This effort was successful, which means any and all donations to the organization can be tax deductible!
Should you have any questions about the organization, feel free to contact me on the officers page. I will be proud to talk to you. (Please note, our books are open to anyone with serious intentions who wish to examne the records.)
We would also like to thank you for your consideration in helping to make this monument a reality!
No doubt the cost of this monument is what makes some people leery. For this reason I went to the Lafourche Parish Council to ask them for help. The council agreed and formed the Heroes Monument Commission so we would have an official voice. Now we can ask the taxpayers of the parish to vote a millage so we can purchase the property for the monument.
We are certain that with the combination of the millage, grants and donations from individuals and corporate sources, we will have enough to purchase this property.
NOTE: We will seek the millage only if we cannot get the grants and donations to purchase the property. (The property is needed so we can sell tiles to veterans and supporters in order to build the monument. We are currently applying for grants through our C-3, but we also need people to purchase tiles and/or donate to this worthy cause.)
Indeed, we plan to finish what we started.
Here, we talk the talk, but with your help, we can walk the walk!
Thank you for the time you’ve taken to check out our site.
"Veteran’s Bride"
(Anonymous)
Let me tell you what it means,
To be a veterans bride.
You can spend many a lonesome day,
Standing by his side.
He doesn’t mean to shut you out,
It’s not his aim at all,
He truly cannot keep himself,
From putting up a wall.
Don’t think that he doesn’t love you,
He may rant or even yell.
He may not yet admit it but,
He’s going through some hell.
He may not talk about it,
May sit awhile and stare.
He may not hear you talking.
May not even know you’r there.
Often time he stares in silence.
Often times you see his tears.
Often times what is on his mind,
Has burdened him for years.
He needs to talk about it.
He needs to ease his mind.
He needs someone who’s been there,
With memories of his kind.
Times he opens up his heart,
And pours the memories out.
It may seem like days & days,
That’s all he talks about.
He can’t tell you that’s he’s hurt.
Can’t tell you that he’s confused.
The memories will not go away.
He feels that he’s been used.
He often nips his bottle,
He may take a pill or two
Anything to ease his mind,
Is what he’s apt to do.
Judging from his actions,
A wife will often deduct,
If he doesn’t gain control of this,
He’s set on self-destruct.
You can be there when he’s hurting,
You can let him know you care,
You can be his life companion,
But some things he can’t share.
It’s hard to be objective’
When you’re hurting deep inside,
It’s not an easy life you’ve chosen,
To be a veteran’s bride.
"What is a Veteran?"
(Editorial, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1995)
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg.
Or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.
What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in DA Nang.
A veteran is the POW who went away one person and came back another or didn't come back AT ALL.
A veteran is the hard driving drill instructor who has never seen combat, but has saved countless lives by turning, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
A veteran is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his or her ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
A veteran may be a career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass them by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns,
Whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep?
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket or a door greeter at the local discount store, who once helped liberate a Nazi death camp. She may be a nurse at the V.A. Hospital who once saved solders lives on the on the battlefields abroad. They wish all day long that their soul mate were still alive to hold them when the nightmares come.
A veteran is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of their life's most vital years in the service of their country, and who sacrificed their ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
They are soldiers and saviors and swords against the darkness, and they are nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot: "THANK YOU."
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who Feels the disrespect when a protester burn the flag.
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Concerned Veterans of Louisiana Inc.
111 Jenna Dr
Schriever, LA 70395
ph: 985-448-1790
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