Imagine the pure joy and excitement if someone offered you a house at no cost.

That is the way Pfc. James Stanly felt Sept. 17 as a mobile trailer was driven nearly 400 miles from Picatinny Arsenal to his current residence in Chateaugay, NY, where it was presented to him.

Stanly, 27, is a New Jersey National Guardsman based in Jersey City. He returned from a tour in Iraq in 2009 and found that his current home, a trailer not far from the Canadian border, was rotting from rain seeping through the roof and causing moldy-unlivable conditions that threatened his health.

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