BROTHERHOOD: Serviceman’s co-workers stand in for him at daughter’s graduation

Sometimes when your dad is called away to active duty for our country, he misses important milestones in his family’s lives.

Just such an instance happened in Mesa, Arizona where police officer and military reservist Shawn Prinkey missed his daughter’s kindergarten graduation a few days ago because of his service in Afghanistan.  Some of his fellow officers stepped in to fill his place on that important day for his little girl.  It’ll be a day she and her classmates will surely remember for many years to come.

(ABC News) – Most graduates invite their family and close friends to the ceremony — but one Arizona kindergarten student got to bring the local police department to hers.

Shawn Prinkey is a motorcycle officer and 14-year veteran of the Mesa Police Department. As a part-time member of the military, Prinkey is also serving in the Army in Afghanistan and couldn’t make his daughter Sophia’s kindergarten graduation on May 13.

So his fellow Mesa police officers decided to attend the event for him instead.

“The graduation ceremony event was put together by a fellow Mesa Police Department officer and friend of his, whose wife is also a teacher at the same school,” Mesa Police Det. Esteban Flores told ABC News. “They worked together with the school and with Prinkey’s motor squad to make it happen.”