CENTRALIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri soldier has been buried more than four decades after he died in an Army helicopter crash.

The Columbia Missourian reports that a memorial was held Saturday in Centralia for Rodney Griffin.

The Centralia man was 21 in 1970 when his helicopter was shot down in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In February, Griffin’s relatives were told his remains had been found in a grave near the crash site, where two other men killed in the crash also were identified.

During the memorial, service members saluted and everyone else held their hands over their hearts. There also were speeches and a prayer.

Afterward, a parking lot full of bikers revved their engines and escorted Griffin to a cemetery in Mexico, where he was buried next to his parents.