It was especially poignant this year given the losses the vulnerable have faced due to the pandemic.
When former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter came to New York to help finish the work on the Habitat building, Jim and Sherry walked across the Brooklyn Bridge with the Carters, the new homeowners, and hundreds of volunteers to cut the ribbons on the new homes.
After the military, his first work was sorting checks in the transit department until he graduated to the position of truck driver, delivering beer through-out Union, Hudson, and Essex counties in New Jersey.