Army Spc. Rudolph R. Hizon, 22, Los Angeles; killed in explosion in Afghanistan

The Filipino immigrant is posthumously granted U.S. citizenship and his mother gets a green card to join his two siblings and her husband after three years because of immigration rules that had kept her in Manila. Filipino immigrant Rudolph Ryan Hizon had been in the United States for only three months in 2008 when he decided to join the Army. The 19-year-old, who was living in the Glassell Park ...