Soldier Killed In Vietnam To Receive Proper Burial, Nearly 40 Years Later
November 8, 2011
BLUE ISLAND, Ill. (CBS) — A soldier from Blue Island who was 17 when he died in Vietnam will be buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery this week.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Lisa Fielding reports, Army Pfc. Wayne Bibbs died in 1972 while serving as a door gunner on a helicopter that crashed. But the casket was empty at his first funeral, because his remains and those of two others were not found until decades later.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday that Bibbs will be buried as a group in a single casket with Capt. Arnold E. Holm Jr. of Waterford, Conn., and Spc. Robin R. Yeakley of South Bend, Ind.
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