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Lathan Goumas | MLive.com..United States Army Staff Sergeant Luis Bratic takes a moment as he talks with reporters before surprising his 10-year-old son Christopher Bratic during a school assembly at Lillian G. Mason Elementary Scho in Grand Blanc Township, Mich. on Thursday June 7 2012. Bratic returned home from an 11-month deployment if Afghanistan. "It was exciting, best thing in the world," he said after the surprise occurred.
