SLIDEHOW: Military mom surprises daughter by coming home for Christmas – from S. Korea

12/25/2019

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GSWE_1390 — On the next to the last day of classes before the SCS winter break, Riverwood Elementary School third-grader Shaumya Williams went to school missing her mother, Staff Sgt. Quashaundria Williams, who had been deployed overseas six months earlier. To her surprise – and that of her classmates – the morning brought a joyful reunion. (Right) Sgt. Williams, her husband and their very happy eight-year-old daughter. (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)

TSD photojournalist Gary S. Whitlow was on hand for the special moment that a third-grader found out her military mom would be home for Christmas after all!

Staff Sgt. Quashaundria Williams, who had been deployed to South Korea, had been separated from her daughter, Shaumya Williams, for six months before a surprise reunion in the third-grader’s class at Riverwood Elementary School last Friday morning.

Check out these heartwarming images . . . see if you can keep your heart from melting!

Home for the Holidays (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)

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