On a cold, rainy day on March 9, 2024, twenty people gathered to remember the tenth anniversary of the burial of U.S. Army Spc5 Wyley Wright Jr. and his wife, Ouida Fay Wright, at Arlington National Cemetery.
Their burial together in Section 59 on March 9, 2014, brought together two people who had been separated in death for more than 50 years. Spc5 Wright, a crew chief with the 114th Aviation Company, lost his life on March 9, 1965, when the UH-1 Huey helicopter he was in crashed in a swamp along the Mekong Delta near the South Vietnamese town of Binh Long. His remains were brought back to the United States and buried in a segregated cemetery in Jackson, Florida. Ouida died the same day as her husband in 1970 and was also buried in a segregated cemetery in Columbus, Georgia.