Kids at Horsham’s Hallowell Elementary get surprise reunion with military dad after deployment

2 Horsham students surprised by father at school following deployment 01:59

HORSHAM, Pa. (CBS) — Two students had no idea about the surprise waiting for them at school Monday after their dad returned from his military deployment overseas.

“The holidays were really tough,” Tara Unger, the mother of the children, said.

Unger tried to give the best holiday she could to her 9-year-old daughter, Evelyn, and her 7-year-old son, Jackson.

“The kids had all of the magic and everything they put into the holidays,” Tara Unger said.

However, the kids were missing their dad, New Jersey Air National Guard Tech Sergeant Dustin Unger, who was deployed to Saudi Arabia in October.

“It was hard not being there,” he said.

He added, the family also powered through a trip to Disneyland without him.

“Them being taller this year and being able to do some of the bigger rides and not just the kiddie rides,” Dustin Unger said.

Dustin Unger thanked all the teachers and students at Hallowell Elementary, where the kids attend school and Tara Unger is a recess assistant, for standing in the gap while he served his country.

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