Glen James, the homeless man of 8 years who returned a lost backpack containing nearly $42,000 last Saturday, was honored Monday by police with a special citation. James has gone even to state that "Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a penny".   James found the black backpack in a Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, just outside a TJ Maxx, where he turned it in to police, who returned it to the visiting Chinese student who had lost it. The bag had $2,400 dollars and about $40,000 in traveler's checks along with the student's passport.  At the conference, where James was honored by Boston police, Commissioner Edward Davis thanked the hero for "extraordinary show of character and honesty".

James declined to speak, but did give a statement saying he's been homeless since 2005 after losing his job as file clerk in the Boston municipal court system, then living on only food stamps and panhandling to live on.  "It's just nice to have some money in one's pocket so that as a homeless man I don't feel absolutely broke all the time," James has also said.

That's about to change:

Ethan Whittington, a stranger touched by James' honest act, has made an online fundraiser on GoFundMe.com , aiming towards a $50,000 goal of donations for the honorable James. However, the funderaiser has surpassed that and is now currently at approximately $57,000 and counting.