The drive to raise the $26,000 for the statue started last summer with an anonymous $17,000 donation, Cox said.
"The Caddo Parish Commission agreed that if we got it they'd pay for the mounting of it," Cox said. "I took it to Colonel D and told him the price and he looked at me and said 'no problem.'"
The statue was in place several weeks ago but the planners wanted to let Veterans Day go by and dedicate the statue on the Pearl Harbor attack anniversary instead.