Based: Ft. Hood, Texas
2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: December 28, 2006
Taji, Iraq
Married, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: South Gate
High School: South Gate Senior High (South Gate)
Man I couldn't believe it when I saw RIP in your myspace page. I talked to you a couple weeks before you pass away. Now your in heaven chilling. Hope your familia is doing well. One day will meet again. RIP homie.— Rafael Alvarez
MA3 Alvarez, Rafael USN
November 18, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.
Shortly after graduating from South Gate High School in 2003, Ayala joined the Army. After serving a year in Iraq in 2004, he returned to the war in October.Read the entire LA Times article about Army Specialist Luis G. Ayala here and find Specialist Ayala here and here.
On Dec. 28, Ayala, 21, was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near him while on patrol near Taji, north of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Ayala left behind a German wife and son that his mother has never met.
"I've just spoken to her over the phone and seen the photos," his mother said of her daughter-in-law.
After basic training in Georgia, Ayala was sent to Germany. On his free time, he and another soldier frequented a park near the base. It was there that Ayala met a German girl named Deniz, his mother said. She still doesn't know Deniz's last name.
From Germany, Luis wrote to an immigration judge to say it was unfair that he should be fighting for the United States while the government denied his mother legal residency.
The judge agreed and gave his mother her legal papers last year.
Livier Ayala still lives in South Gate, where Luis was buried. Her youngest son, Juan, lives at home, while her oldest, Sergio, is married.
She works as a cashier. The little in life that she has includes photographs of her son, the woman who was briefly his wife and the knowledge that somewhere far away she has a grandson she's never seen.
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