Every year Jim Veyer decorates his home like a winter wonderland, sports a white beard, puts on one of the several red Santa suits he owns to spread a little love and holiday cheer to as many children as he can. After growing up an orphan Jim attended UNC-Chapel Hill and held down two jobs, Veyer explained that because it was during that time he joined the Army where he served in Vietnam and remained active for two decades it was there that he became Santa for the first time. Since then Jim has dawned the Santa suit many times, meeting celebrities, visiting troops overseas and even making an appearance at Radio City Music Hall as the Father Christmas, but Veyer says those aren’t his happiest memories.