"Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor @ Grand Lake April 5, 2018.
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"Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" is a 14 minute documentary that speaks of love in the midst of war and affirms the U.S. military in its Civil Rights role of integration. Fifty years after the Vietnam death of Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. as an honor guard for Secretary of Defense McNamara, a White Houston, Texas teenager, who was a fellow "Knight of the Air" with Wright and the wife of fallen pilot 1st Lieutenant Kenneth A. Shannon, joined the Wrights at an Arlington National Cemetery ceremony honoring Wright who had been buried in a segregated cemetery in the South for five decades. A year after the ceremony, the Wright sisters, Phyllis Cameron and Jackie Wright, traveled to Vietnam in advance of the California State East Bay International MBA Program in which Phyllis had enrolled and they were able to find the family of the photographer who had created the last anniversary gifts Wright had given to his cherished "Ouida" a few weeks before his death.
Both Sp5 Wright & Mrs. Wright had died on Monday, March 9th, six years apart, respectively in the years of 1964 and 1970. Their four children pooled their resources for SP5 Wright, who had been buried in Jacksonville, Florida for 50 years and Ouida Wright, who had been buried 44 years in Columbus, Georgia to be joined at Arlington National Cemetery, one of the most hallowed grounds in the world.
"Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" inspires families to find history among their own family & friends albums and mementos.
