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Gold Star Spouses Day has come and gone, but the men and women who gave all will never be forgotten.

After Melissa Kurzs husband died in a car crash in St. Augustine, all that was left was a block of char. Until Lakewood Jewelers offered some magic.

Char Fontan Westfall has experienced one of the most significant losses a human being can endure: the death of a loved one during a military deployment. Char Fontan Westfall talks about love, loss and being a Navy SEAL widow.

‘Prescription for Hope’: A Navy SEAL Widow Learns How to Grieve and Live Again When our country’s service members are killed in action, they aren’t alone in making the ultimate sacrifice. Their families also bear the burden. Char Fontan Westfall continues to carry the loss of her late husband Navy SEAL Jacques Fontan, but she’s learned how to grieve and how to live again. Westfall met Fontan when he was serving at the Navy base in Jacksonville, Florida, as a rescue swimmer instructor ...