Wife of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan 15 years ago opens up about love, grief, and acceptance in new book
Matt Soergel, The Florida Times-Union
Fifteen years ago in the mountains of Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade struck an MH-47 Army Chinook helicopter that had raced to support four Navy SEALs who were outnumbered and pinned down on a rock-strewn ridge.
The helicopter exploded in flames and plunged to earth, killing all 16 aboard.
It's a brief, crushing scene toward the end of the 2013 fact-based film "Lone Survivor," in which Mark Wahlberg plays the only one of those four SEALs who made it to safety.
For Char Fontan Westfall, though, that scene remains a nightmare all these years later, albeit a nightmare from which she has created a new, happy life — though not without much struggle along the way.
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