[Harris:] How about this? Waking up Christmas Eve with composer, singer Jim Brickman. Well, he gave me my own personal private concert this week. I'm willing to share. Stick around for my interview with Jim Brickman, 10:00 Eastern, right here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
[Unidentified Male:] Hi. My name is Joshua Dominy. I'm stationed at Tikrit, Iraq. I'd like to wish a Happy Holidays to my family and friends in southeast Texas. You all have fun and I love you all.
[Unidentified Female:] Hi. I'm Hi. My name is Sergeant Felicia Dorsey from Al Asad, Iraq. I would like to say hello to my daughter Tatiana in Scott Ridge, Georgia. Dana and Jordan, I love you and miss you. Happy Holidays.
[Harris:] How good is that? Our thoughts are always with the military men and women deployed far from home, far from family. But it's different during the holidays. The distance seems greater. So when our Los Angeles affiliate, KTLA, had a chance to make a military family's season brighter, a no-brainer. Here's Frank Buckley.
[Frank Buckley, Ktla Reporter:] Major Herbert Sherl is almost home. In August, the Air Force major deployed here to Iraq, to an air base north of Baghdad. It was where he was supposed to stay until his unit came home at end of January, too late for Christmas and too late for the birth of his second daughter.
[Unidentified Male:] I've got a little girl. Her name is Hannah. She's due January 20th. A C-section is scheduled for the 18th and I was supposed to come home from Iraq after her due date. So back in Iraq, a couple of my commanders had mercy on me because we were overstaffed and I got to come home early.
[Buckley:] He told us but he didn't tell his wife, who thought we were there to take pictures to send to the major. Their 2-year-old daughter Emily only knows that dad is in Iraq.
[Unidentified Male:] And hasn't seen her daddy in four months, so I think she's either going to be happy to see me or not know who I am.
[Buckley:] But just listen to moment when Herbert Sherl walks through the door. Little Emily sees him first.
[Unidentified Female:] Daddy! Honey, what are you doing here? Oh, my god! What are you doing home? What are you doing here?
[Unidentified Male:] I'm surprising you!
[Buckley:] The homecoming, a Christmas present this family will never forget.
[Unidentified Female:] Oh, I love you.
[Unidentified Male:] I love you, too.
[Harris:] Oh, man. Coming up tomorrow morning, a special holiday family reunion. Through the magic of technology, we will reunite a soldier in Iraq with his family back in Hotlanta. Sergeant Lloyd Swain, seen here on the right, will join us from Baghdad. His parents and two sons will join us here at the CNN Center. You can catch their reunion tomorrow morning during our 7:00 Eastern hour. There were so many stories this year that jumped right off the sports pages and onto page one, which one of these belongs in the top of the list in the world of sports? Cast your ballot now. A break and we're right back with more on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.