9 year old Alayna Adams threw out the first pitch before last Thursday’s Tampa Bay Rays-Boston Red Sox game, only to be surprised that the man in the catcher’s mask was her father who has been deployed in Afghanistan for the past year!

With the magical help of the people at Disney, a mother has a wonderful surprise reunion with her U.S. Navy son!

Steven Anderson, who had been deployed to Afghanistan for over 11 months, was not supposed to be home for his youngest son’s graduation.  Garrett Anderson was a senior at Hillsboro High School and had already enlisted in the USMC, leaving for boot camp in just one month. He did not think his dad would be home for his graduation…