A soldier has given his daughter the warmest gift ever after planning to give her the biggest surprise at her High School graduation.
The soldier went to great lengths to return home from service and surprise his daughter for her high school graduation.
According to Daily Mail, Master Sgt. Derrick Morris arranged a plan with the principle of his daughter's school, Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, to be able to surprise his little girl and keep it a secret.
Morris was not due back from serving in Kuwait until September and told his daughter, Camille Morris, that he would not get to see her graduate.
But when the day came, Morris made a huge entrance in front of the entire school.
'I wanted to tell her I was coming, but I'm glad I didn't,' Morris told Fox 40.
In video taken of the ceremony, Camille bursts into tears at the sight of her father.
'I didn't want to let go, I wanted to hold on to him,' she said afterwards. 'It would've been a year in September since I'd seen him, probably would've missed my 18th birthday, too.'
RB High Principal Dave LeMaster announced that Master Sgt. Morris was making a brief visit so he could witness his daughter's graduation in person.
'It was breathtaking and so surreal,' Camille Morris said.
Sgt. Morris said the big surprise took nine months to plan.
'That was a whole year of emotions exploded at once, so it's unbeatable,' the father told Pomerado News.
The Morris family will now spend a few days together before he has to return to Kuwait
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