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Otsego Dad Back from Kuwait Surprised His Girls on the Ice: St. Cloud Times

Hugs came before hockey when Bill Scherling made a surprise appearance at St. Cloud's Municipal Athletic Complex, the newspaper reported.

The St. Cloud Times recently told the story of Otsego resident Bill Scherling's return from Kuwait, where he has been serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves.

Scherling surprised his daughters Anna, 10, and Sami, 12, as Anna was about to take the ice with her Rogers hockey team, the Times reported:

“It was really surprising. I’m really glad,” Anna Scherling said.

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“I was really shocked and then I went and gave him hug,” added Sami Scherling.

Bill Scherling, who lives in Otsego with his family and has served in the military for more than two decades, is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves . Twenty-one years of service resulted in three separate deployments – most recently to Kuwait, but also to Afghanistan and Bosnia. Twenty-one years of marriage to his wife, Toni, has resulted in three children, Anna, Sami and 17-year-old, Kassie, who greeted her father at the airport with flowers and balloons when he returned home earlier this week.

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