ENROLLED
2023 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 33
BY REPRESENTATIVE FREEMAN
A RESOLUTION
To commend Carry The Load on the occasion of the organization's twelfth anniversary.
WHEREAS, Carry The Load in a nonprofit organization with a mission to restore
the true meaning of Memorial Day; the organization began on Memorial Day in 2011 with
the first Dallas Memorial March at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, where four hundred
participants marched for twenty hours and eleven minutes and raised nearly $50,000 to fund
healing services for the mind, body, and soul of our veterans; and
WHEREAS, Carry The Load has grown to encompass more than just military
veterans and their families, and the organization has also expanded its activities to include
holidays in addition to Memorial Day; and
WHEREAS, Carry The Load strives to bring all American citizens together to
participate in honoring our nation's heroes on a daily basis; its goal is to raise awareness of
those who make daily sacrifices to safeguard American freedoms by providing Americans
with an active way to remember, honor, and celebrate these heroes; and
WHEREAS, Carry The Load also aims to inspire patriotism in our country's youth
by educating them about the American Flag and the sacrifices made to honor it; and
WHEREAS, 2023 marks twelve years since the founding of Carry The Load by
United States Navy SEAL veterans Clint Bruce and Stephen Holly; both the organization
and its founders are most deserving of the highest recognition for their incredible work.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Carry The Load on the occasion of the
organization's twelfth anniversary and does hereby extend sincerest wishes that the
organization continue to receive the support it needs to carry out its inspiring and patriotic
mission.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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