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(ABC 6 News) - A Minnesota Army National Guard member is back home tonight, returning to his family a little early to surprise his young children while they were at school. 

Brian Akkerman was deployed for a second time, this time in Djibouti, Africa. Brian returns to his wife Sara, and kids Hannah, 11, Amelia, 8, and Henry 4. They plan to spend time together as a family after him coming home a month early. 

"To give our kids their dad back. There's just really no words," Sara said.

Between tears and laughs upon his return, the two daughters were surprised, to say the least.

"I never expected that it would actually happen, so it was kind of shocking to see him come back before I expected him to," Amelia said.