A babe in arms when her father died in Vietnam, Phyllis Wright Cameron, one of the thousands of graduates across California and the nation, gained a new perspective on the Vietnam War as a result of her studies at CSUEB.
Commencement ceremonies for the University of California State University East Bay get underway Sunday, June 12th at 9:00 a.m. in the University Stadium for Phyllis Wright Cameron of Antioch. She will be among those receiving the Global Innovators Master of Business Administration diploma.
Cameron, who was six months old when her father Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. died in Vietnam, had no idea when she signed up for the master's program that it would bring her new insights about her father and the place where he took his last breath in service to the United States of America.
In 2014, Cameron and her siblings Jackie Wright of San Francisco, Joe Wright of Columbus, GA and Stanley Wright of Orangeburg, SC had their father Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr., who died as an honor guard for then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara on March 9, 1964, reburied with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
"Just a few weeks ago, President Obama was the first U.S. President to go to Vietnam since the war, demonstrating the need for the ongoing healing of the breach brought by the Vietnam War, and in a sense we Wrights were the avant-garde for that journey. As private citizens, we went to Ho Chi Minh City and Vinh Long in June 2015 to see the land and the people that will be a part of our country's history forever," said Cameron. "My sister and I met with the family of the Vietnamese Photographer who made our father's last anniversary gifts for his deeply cherished wife Ouida Fay, and we performed a short ceremony on the Mekong River honoring our Dad, his comrades and the people of Vietnam."
Wyley and Ouida Fay Wright celebrated their 11th Anniversary in January of 1964 and he died two months later on March 9th. Six years later, Ouida Fay died on March 9, 1970 when Cameron was six years old. Motivated by the realization that their Fallen Hero Father was buried in an unkept segregated cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, the Wright siblings pooled their resources to have their father reburied at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition, they had their mother exhumed from the historic Green Acres Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia so she could be buried with her husband, whom she followed to all of the military bases at which he was stationed.
Fifty years later, almost to the day of when they were separated in life, on March 10, 2014, during the 50th Celebration of the Civil Rights Movement and the 150th Commemoration of Arlington National Cemetery, Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. and Ouida Fay McClendon Wright were laid to rest in a ceremony the Wrights titled "Love Separated in Life … Love Reunited in Honor."
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