Family buries Marine who went missing decades ago

Published August 7, 2012 12:24am ET



SAN DIEGO (AP) — On a wind-swept bluff overlooking the Pacific, Robert Rivenburgh sobbed like he never had in the nearly four decades since his older brother went missing during the Vietnam War.

The remains of Marine Pfc. Richard W. Rivenburgh had finally come home, and he was buried Monday at Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.

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