Rewarding Projects

I have been doing some kind of wood working most my life..  I have been through lots of types of wood working.  But in my old age since around  2014 I purchased a good scroll saw and that is where I have been most comfortable since.   It is a reasonably cheap hobby to do after you get a few good pieces of equipment and the main expense gets to be just wood.  So it fits my retirement budget pretty well.  The down side of scrolling is I make things that people praise and ooh and awww about, but not some art they really would want to hang on their wall at home.  I have, the past couple years been concentrating on one thing that people do appreciate and I mean really appreciate to the point of tears in a few cases.  So I keep doing it and will until I can not anymore.  I cut and make military emblems for veterans, and active military people I meet along the way.  It is so rewarding.   I just finished two, the Marine one is for me I keep making myself one, than giving it away, to some Marine I meet.  The second one is for a friend of my son's, that I met last time I visited my son, retired 35 years in the Navy.  By the way my son is retired 22 years Navy F18 Super Hornet pilot.  I did 3 years 3 month 29 days in the Marines,  First in my family to join the military, and the best time of my life, outside of raising a family.    Anyway these are my latest.  I have made them for all branches of the military.   Got two more Navy ones to make, I just met a  ex-Navy Submariners a week ago,  first time I have met a submariner before.  I alway felt they were a special breed.  Can't wait to get it done and give it to him.