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Best Of Home Post: Military Dad Surprises Daughter During Spelling Bee (Video)

Originally posted October 12, 2011:

Dad Surprises Daughter At Spelling Bee

I must say, these surprise military reunions are getting more and more clever.

This time, Staff Sgt. Therron Johnson used a school spelling bee to surprise his daughter with an unexpected homecoming. Johnson had been on deployment in Iraq since last Christmas, according to Florida television station CBS12.

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His little girl, 9-year-old Skylar Johnson, was participating in her Boca Raton elementary school's spelling bee when she received an unexpected prize for correctly spelling the word "Sergeant."