DAPHNE, Ala. — Harry Weber — recently named the 2011 American Sport Art Museum and Archives’ Sport Sculptor of the Year — honored veterans who served their country with a special art exhibition on the United States Sports Academy’s campus on Nov 10.

The academy also honored the 235th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps, while kicking off its annual campaign for Toys for Tots. The Marines have recognized the academy as one of the largest Toys for Tots collection sites in the region, Sports Academy Communications Coordinator Leigha Bolton said.

“This is just a wonderful occasion to bring the Marines out, to bring the public out and to introduce Toys for Tots,” said Cal Walters, commandant of the Mobile Marine Corps League.

Weber displayed a series of sketches depicting scenes from the Korean War, Desert Storm, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan in an exhibit titled “A Warrior’s Sketchbook.” Weber also presented the academy with a bronze statue of a soldier holding up an American flag, titled “Wounded Warrior.”

Weber donated the sketches featured in the art exhibit to the museum, and they are being sold with the proceeds going to the academy’s Wounded Warrior scholarship program, which provides scholarships for those injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Several of those sketches have been sold, but there are some still available,” Bolton said. The sketches cost $100 each, Bolton said.

The Sport Artist of the Year Award is presented annually to an individual who captures the spirit and life of sport so that future generations can relive the drama of today’s competition.