Cane carvers offer leg up to wounded veterans
ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — Jo McKenzie burned a personal message into a cane she was making for Luther Burnam Jr. of Panhandle, Texas : "Don't sneeze."
"Every time I sneezed, they shot me," Burnam, a Vietnam veteran with five Purple Hearts, had told McKenzie's husband, Stan.
Burnam told the couple he had been shot five times.
The McKenzies of Rogers are members of Woodcarvers of Northwest Arkans...
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