Six-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Surprises Marine Father When He WALKS To Him For First Time

Welcome Home, Dad! Moment Six-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Surprises Marine Father When He WALKS To Him For First Time -- Daily Mail

A U.S. Marine got the gift of a lifetime when he returned from Afghanistan to find that his son Michael, 6, had learned to walk.

The heartwarming event was recorded as it unfolded in a North Carolina school gymnasium, as Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney believed his son's cerebral palsy would keep him from being able to move without assistance for his entire life.

'We kept the fact that he could walk a secret the whole time his dad was gone,' wife Melissa Cooney told the Welcome Home Blog.

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My Comment: It's usually the soldier who is surprising his kids .... this time it is the other way around.