USA First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

Dear First Lady Kristin Cooper,
I hope this finds you well. My name is Phillys McCray. I am an ambassador of the Drug
Epidemic Memorial Wall team. Below is what we are excited about and would love your
support. My son Michael will forever be 29 due to fentanyl poisoning on Thanksgiving of
2015. This is why I am so passionate about this project. I'm also a person in recovery and
an Alumni of Healing Transitions.
This is a 50-state campaign to get a memorial wall established in the Capitol building of
every state, in remembrance of those who have been a victim of the drug epidemic that is
plaguing our nation. We hope you will be able to help us with this project.
We would like our loved ones to be treated like victims. They were all victims of Purdue
Pharma (an American cartel) and many others. Now, they are victims of Chinese and
Mexican Cartels, who have brought fentanyl into the US without regard for human life.
Would you assist us in finding a permanent location for a Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall
within our capital? We have created two digital memorial walls: one with photos and one
with names. I am including Michael’s frame below as an example of how the walls would
be made up. These digital walls and albums update automatically. The Wall of Names,
inspired by the Viet Nam Memorial, can be projected on a wall so families can touch their
loved one's name. It would be even more wonderful if the photos could be displayed in
hard copy format.
We look forward to speaking with you in person. A group of our North Carolina moms &
families would love to meet with you and work together to prevent this from happening
ever again.
Sincerely,
Phyllis McCray
Raleigh, NC