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.'"

Then it struck him: That would be Kent.

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 h

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