Floyd Truitt is a woodcarver, but he has pinched nerves in his back and arm that are shackling his movements and making it difficult for him to carve these days. His carving began as a fun and yout… ...

Bob started carving more than 70 years ago as a boy scout and has found a niche for carving canes for free for folks that need some help and stability walking.

Jack York is Santa Claus to children and injured soldiers. He carves eagle head canes in his wood working shop near Anniston.

Phillips had some examples of the canes at the group’s annual meeting, an event that drew about 125 people, including 18 professional instructors teaching classes in woodcarving.

For the first time after a three-year Covid pandemic disruption, military members of a wood carving club presented eagle-headed, insignia-emblazoned walking canes to combat-wounded veterans ...

Wharton, 78, of Dallas was inside showing photographers walking canes that he made for veterans. He was inspired almost nine years ago when he saw canes that Jack Nitz of Tulsa was carving for ...

Racine - Paul Miller thought it sounded like a good idea - carving canes for veterans returning home with a leg injury.

Hutchens and other members of the wood carvers association, which he guessed is made up of "15 or 20 percent" veterans, carve honor canes for people who have received the Purple Heart.

“So we got together and we started carving canes,” he said. The Carvers Guild will present the canes to the Veterans Home in September, but for right now they are in full carving swing.