![]() knew the truth in his heart and he taught me that truth before I ever heard that shout from my generation. I LOVE MY BLACK DADDY! Growing up in a time when there was no chant of “Black is Beautiful,” Wyley Wright Jr. In my eyes, Wyley Wright was a beautiful “Blue Black” as they used to say back in the day. He was one of those “blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice” Black men. I LOVE THAT MAN, My Dad! The room lit up when he walked in with his Black self! There was no doubting, no possibility of passing. Army, whose last mission in Viet Nam was March 9, 1964, as an Honor Guard for then Secretary of Defense Robert S. 13, 2018, a couple of days after Veterans Day, thinking about what Anh Lê, a freelance writer in San Francisco, had asked me about my Father, Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr., of the 114th Aviation Company of the U.S. Woke up in the Fourth Watch of the night, Nov. I LOVE MY BLACK DADDY! I LOVE MY BLACK DADDY! I LOVE MY BLACK DADDY! I’m telling you, I’m telling you, I’m telling you … As a proud Black man, that is something that kept him from being promoted to the level he worked for,” writes Jackie Wright in “Love story at Arlington National Cemetery,” published in the Bay View in 2015. He was an honorable man who spoke his mind. He loved the people of Viet Nam and wrote to us about their beauty and industry. By Jackie Wright “My father loved his work as a helicopter crew chief.
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