Laid to rest: Private First Class Anthony La Rossa was reported missing in action in 1951. His remains were finally buried next to his mother's in New York More than 60 years after Private First Class Anthony La Rossa went missing while serving during the Korean War, his remains have been buried next to the mother who died never knowing his fate. 'It was very difficult for her,' said La Rossa's niece, Donna La Rossa, after a gravesite service at St. Charles Cemetery on Long Island, New York on Monday. 'He was only a teenager and would write in his letters home how he was missing his mom's spaghetti. She struggled the rest of her life.'
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Anthony La Rossa went missing while serving in South Korea in 1951
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His mother, Marie, continued to send him letters but they were returned and she passed away in 1976 - never knowing her son's fate
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North Korea handed over his remains to the U.S.  in the early 1990s but they were only recently identified after his brother gave a DNA sample
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On Monday, La Rossa was buried beside his mother in Farmingdale on Long Island, New York in a service attended by family and veterans
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