Veteran gives Christmas trees a second life!

Oscar Morris knows firsthand how disabled vets are hesitant to use a cane, but today more than 1,000 former soldiers get around with his special canes that aid balance and display the story of their service

- Bill Holton

"It's what God wanted me to do," says Oscar of making canes for veterans

What’s this?” Oscar Morris wondered, reaching into the water. Oscar was boating on Trout Lake, gathering cypress driftwood to turn into sculptures. Oscar, a disabled vet, donates his artwork to veteran organizations for fundraisers. But what was floating alongside his boat wasn’t driftwood—it was a sturdy oak limb.

Back in his Eustis, Florida, workshop, Oscar turned the limb this way and that. “It wants to be a walking stick,” he decided, so he shaped the limb with his grinder, then finished the cane with carving knives and several coats of poly.

Oscar made a second cane, and this time posted a picture on Facebook.