Melissa Watkins, a Gold Star spouse, speaks during a Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec. 17, 2016, at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Princeton, North Carolina. Watkins’ late husband, Lt. Col. William Watkins III, was killed in action, April 7, 2003, while deployed with the 335th Fighter Squadron in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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