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>> just welcoming home troops, saying thanks and merry christmas and giving them applause. they're so humble. you can't get a smile out of them until after you come up and shake their hand. they're always thankful and respectful. >> some reunions mean a whole lot more than a simple welcome home, like this couple who were deployed to different countries and were reunited with their young son just in time for christmas. >> good christmas present? >> yeah, the best. >> and this couple who are reunited with their kids after also being deployed to two different locations. >> when you don't have you...

So i started being able to disguise it. and just being like, okay, well if i say something like, if she has cool earrings and i'm sitting there with a bunch of guys in the mall, i get beat up. so it was something you had to suppress and i got very good at bottling it up. >> that's got to be incredibly difficult and painful. >> yes. you grow up with it for so long, and you just get so used to living through that despair. it's an anguish you keep holding inside you. i know it's a similar story we all have, that you hold on to it and when you're looking at the girls and you whistle and you're try...

Trying to do that, ride around on motorcycles. but a year into it, after being in that disguise, you're like, it just breaks out and i have to run out to victoria's secret and buy something and wear it for a couple of days and decompress. it's like that. >> i don't think most people can understand what it's like to feel like you are in disguise, to feel like you are not in the body you are meant to be in, that you're not the gender you're meant to be. did you feel that way always, constantly? >> it is a constant. but as you suppress and bottle it up, it's not like not on that surface. so maybe...

I want to wear her shoes and it's like, i wish i could be her. so every thought i have is not what i would say the quote man would think, but i'm still stuck in that body for so long. so i started being able to disguise it. and just being like, okay, well if i say something like, if she has cool earrings and i'm sitting there with a bunch of guys in the mall, i get beat up. so it was something you had to suppress and i got very good at bottling it up. >> that's got to be incredibly difficult and painful. >> yes. you grow up with it for so long, and you just get so used to living through that d...

And when you're looking at the girls and you whistle and you're trying to do that, ride around on motorcycles. but a year into it, after being in that disguise, you're like, it just breaks out and i have to rub out to victoria's secret and buy something and wear it for a couple of days and decompress. it's like that. >> i don't think most people can understand what it's like to feel like you are in disguise, to feel like you are not in the body you are meant to be in, that you're not the gender you're meant to be. did you feel that way always, constantly? >> it is a constant. but as you suppre...