
Livaudais, 23, was the “image of an American,” his best friend says.
“He’s a hero, definitely,” that friend, Hayden Hatch, told Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV. “They had to do a terrorist-type thing in order to get him. He was definitely a strong individual. He was a good guy. I’m proud to say he was my friend.”
Livaudais was killed in a suicide car-bomb attack April 3 while coming to the aid of a pregnant woman standing next to the car. The woman, who had been a passenger in the car, also was killed.
Hatch, friends with Livaudais since junior high school, last saw him in the summer when he went home to Utah for a visit.
Hatch said Livaudais didn’t talk much about Iraq, except to say he was willing to serve.
“He was definitely an...