Second grader Imogen Nowak cries in the arms of her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak after he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Second grader Imogen Nowak, seated next to her teacher Mrs. Kristina DiRenzo, raises her hand to answer a question about her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak before he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Second grader Imogen Nowak cries in the arms of her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak as her mother Krista Nowak looks on after he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Second grader Imogen Nowak cries in the arms of her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak after he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Elementary students hold up signs for United States Army Captain Erik Nowak after he surprised his daughter, second grader Imogen Nowak, during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Second grader Imogen Nowak holds the hand of her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak after he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)While posing for television, second grader Imogen Nowak hugs her father United States Army Captain Erik Nowak as her mother Krista Nowak looks on after he surprised her during an assembly for National Kindness Week at Quaker Valley’s Osborne Elementary School in Sewickley on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Captain Nowak has been in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Turkey since September 2016. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)
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