[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 62 (Monday, May 6, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3086-S3087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNIZING FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICES

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor 453 high school 
seniors in 8 northeast Ohio counties who deserve this Nation's eternal 
gratitude for their commendable decision to enlist in the United States 
Armed Forces. Of these 453 seniors from 130 high schools in 93 towns 
and cities, 86 will enter the Army, 171 will enter the Marine Corps, 62 
will enter the Navy, 43 will enter the Air Force, 3 will enter the 
Coast Guard, 82 will enter our Ohio Army National Guard, and 6 will 
enter into the Ohio Air National Guard. In the presence of their 
parents/guardians, and high school counselors, military leaders, city 
and business leaders, all 453 will be recognized on May 7, 2013 by 
``Our Community Salutes of Northeast Ohio.''
  In a few short weeks, these young men and women will join with many 
of their classmates in celebration of their high school graduation. At 
a time when many of their peers are looking forward to pursuing 
vocational training or college degrees, or are uncertain about their 
future, these young men and women instead have chosen to dedicate 
themselves to military service in defense of our rights, our freedoms, 
and our country.
  I have no doubt that many are anxious about the uncertainties that 
await them as members of the Armed Forces. But they do not go forward 
from their homes and their families alone. They should rest assured 
that the full support and resources of this Chamber, and the American 
people, are with them in whatever challenges may lie ahead.
  These 453 young men and women are the cornerstone of our liberties. 
It is thanks to their dedication and the dedication of an untold number 
of patriots just like them that we are able to meet here today, in the 
U.S. Senate, and openly debate the best solutions to the many diverse 
problems that confront our country. It is thanks to their sacrifices 
that the United States of America remains a beacon of hope and freedom 
in a dangerous world. We are grateful to them, and we are grateful to 
their parents and their communities for instilling in them not only the 
mental and physical abilities our Armed Forces require, but more 
importantly the character, the values, and the discipline that leads 
someone to put service to our Nation over self.
  Their decision to serve our country will not go unrecognized, not by 
the veterans who will stop to salute them as they pass, nor by the 
everyday Americans who will shake their hands in grocery stores and gas 
stations and airports, just to let them know how much we all appreciate 
their service. I would like to personally thank these 453 graduating 
seniors for their selflessness and the courage that they have shown by 
volunteering to risk their lives in defense of our Nation. We owe them, 
along with all those who

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serve our country, a deep debt of gratitude.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record 
the names of the 453 high school seniors.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record as follows:


                         United States Army--86

       Abee--Streetsboro; Acevedo--Ashtabula; Ash--Cleveland; 
     Augustine--Berea; Bennett--Lorain; Boggan--Cleveland; 
     Bowling--Macedonia; Brown, T.--Wellington; Brown, J.--Lorain; 
     Burley--Cleveland; Carver--Lorain; Cowles--Ashtabula; 
     Demand--Cuyahoga Falls; Depew--Wadsworth; Deschields--Akron; 
     Diaz--Lorain; Dreslinski--Norton; Estrella, B.--Cleveland; 
     Estrella, D.--Cleveland; Faix--Norton; Fox--Berea; Frappier--
     Medina; Gardner--Medina; Gaspar--Cuyahoga Falls; Gates--
     Strongsville; Hagins--Akron; Hamilton--Cleveland; Hammond--
     Medina; Hill--Brunswick; Hinkle--LaGrange; Hubert--Cleveland; 
     Hudak--Clinton; Ivcic--Maple Heights; Johnston, C.--Medina; 
     Johnson, R.--Madison; Keller--Vermilion; Klissaroff--North 
     Olmsted; Kogovsek--South Euclid; Kundtz--Avon Lake; Lakes--
     Parma; Lee--Cleveland; Leutwyler--Concord; Linden--North 
     Olmsted.
       Loomis--Parma; Lutz--Mentor; Macik--Solon; Makinson--Akron; 
     Martinez--Parma Heights; McKissack--Maple Heights; McMaster--
     Lakewood; Miller--Lorain; Mitchell, T.--Akron; Mitchell, A.--
     Lakewood; Morrisey--Lakewood; Murra--North Ridgeville; 
     Palmer--Grafton; Plant--Akron; Polak--Independence; Politi--
     Macedonia; Prieto--Akron; Racy--Lakewood; Radigan--North 
     Olmsted; Richmond--Cleveland; Ruiz-Rodriguez--Parma; 
     Sackett--Streetsboro; Sala--Chesterland; Salmons--Medina; 
     Sams--Elyria; Scates--Grafton; Schmidt--Brecksville; 
     Sidlauskas--Mentor; Siglin--Elyria; Sirrine--Rock Creek; 
     Smith--Parma; Sneed--Lakewood; Stark--Oberlin; Staudenbaur--
     Chagrin Falls; Stewart--Cleveland; Strawderman--Elyria; 
     Surckla--Novelty; Sweeney--Seville; Tanner--Cuyahoga Falls; 
     Tintera--Russell; Titchenell--Brunswick; Watts--Richmond 
     Heights; Wengerd--Middlefield.


                    United States Marine Corps--171

       Acord--North Ridgeville; Adamo--Parma; Adams--Orwell; 
     Adkins--Lorain; Aiken--Kent; Anderson--Newton Falls; Asad--
     Brunswick; Ashcraft--Orville; Ashworth--Medina; Askew--
     Barberton; August--Mayfield Heights; Aussem--Avon Lake; 
     Badalucco--Barberton; Balas--Strongsville; Bannerman--
     Twinsburg; Battle--Cleveland; Be--North Olmsted; 
     Beairdrhodesden--Akron; Bearden--Parma; Becker--Austinburg; 
     Bell--Andover; Bercaw--Chardon; Bluhm--Euclid; Bodjanac--
     Stow; Bodkins--Wellington; Brewster--Cleveland Heights; 
     Brown--Orwell; Burkhardt--North Ridgeville; Buser--Cleveland; 
     Camp--Lorain; Campbell--Tallmadge; Carlo--Broadview Heights; 
     Carmichael--Westlake; Carpenter--Medina; Chan--Rocky River; 
     Clark--Cleveland; Clemens--Cuyahoga Falls; Cooper--Windham; 
     Croyle--Eastlake; Cunningham--Akron; Davis--Akron; Demeter--
     Brunswick; Diocco--LaGrange.
       Durham--Cleveland; Easley--Ravenna; Edmonds--Mayfield 
     Heights; Emerman--Painesville; England--Olmsted Falls; 
     Evans--Cleveland; Faciana--Northfield; Fafrak--Cleveland; 
     Fiala--Olmsted Falls; Foltyn--Akron; Frank--Fairview Park; 
     Garcia--Cleveland; Gatson--Cleveland; Gomez--Eastlake; 
     Gordon--Cuyahoga Falls; Guerrero--Cleveland; Guzman--
     Lyndhurst; Gyurgyik--Shaker Heights; Hall, A.--Cleveland; 
     Hall, R.--Geneva; Hamper--Jefferson; Hartsel--Lakewood; 
     Hayes--North Royalton; Hoff--Conneaut; Hoffman--Wickliffe; 
     Holzhauer--Maple Heights; Howard--Mogadore; Hucks--Parma; 
     Husar--Lorain; Jackson, G.--Akron; Jackson, M.--Lorain; 
     Jamison--Doylestown; Jawaorski--Cleveland; Jenkins--Euclid; 
     Johnson--Ravenna; Johnson-Lisman--Akron; Jones--Maple 
     Heights; Kobus--Macedonia; Kostura--Brunswick; Kovats--Rome; 
     Krabill--Fairview Park.
       Kruggel--Litchfield; Kulbnik--Medina; Kuzlik--Berea; 
     Latimer--Akron; Leonard--Amherst; Lewis--Akron; Loede--
     Westlake; Lozitsky--Parma; Lyle--Kingsville; Lynch--Silver 
     Lake; Lynn, C.--Parma; Lynn, M.--Middleburg Heights; 
     Masella--Cleveland; Mattson--North Olmsted; McKee--Akron; 
     Mitchell, C.--Stow; Mitchell, A.--Cleveland; Mohler--
     Litchfield; Moore--Cleveland Heights; Murray--Valley View; 
     Myers--Doylestown; Nunez--Akron; Odorich--Brunswick; Orris--
     Barberton; Orsulic--Kingsville; Pagel--Lakewood; Pappas--
     Westlake; Percun--Seven Hills; Perdue--West Salem; 
     Persinger--Amherst; Pollack--Parma; Porcello--Cleveland; 
     Prince--Mansfield; Provoznik--Wellington; Quotson--Rootstown; 
     Radick--Bay Village; Reese--Euclid; Reyes--Lorain; Richards--
     Sheffield Lake; Ritzenhalter--Bay Village.
       Roche--Kent; Rodriguez--Cleveland; Roland--Westlake; 
     Romanchik--North Olmsted; Rush--Wellington; Saintz--Brook 
     Park; Sandman--Stow; Savel--Wellington; Sayers--Sheffield 
     Lake; Schmitz--Spencer; Schneider--Perry; Schon--Amherst; 
     Selzer--Tallmadge; Shaffer--North Ridgeville; Shemo--
     Brunswick; Sheppard--Stow; Sherbert--Elyria; Simon--
     Cleveland; Skvarek--Jefferson; Smith, G.--Clinton; Smith, 
     M.--Elyria; Smith, K.--Cleveland; Smith, J.--Euclid; Steed--
     Orwell; Stiver--Cleveland; Stovicek--Avon Lake; Streitel--
     Lakewood; Stutler--Clinton; Swain--Akron; Tamburro--Parma 
     Heights; Thompson--Brunswick; Tijerina--Brunswick; Tompkins--
     Bedford Heights; Travers--Mentor; Trommer--Medina; 
     Turolebron--Cleveland; Usner--Munroe Falls; Vargas--Parma; 
     Wanda--Conneaut; Ward--Vermilion; Webb--Cleveland; Werner--
     North Royalton; White--Mayfield Heights; Williford--
     Cleveland; Witthuhn--Brunswick; Woolfork--Lorain; Wright--
     Maple Heights.


                         United States Navy--62

       Andino, Jr.--Painesville; Au--Conneaut; Aviles--Wellington; 
     Azbill--Ashtabula; Barnes--Cleveland; Began--Northfield; 
     Boswell--North Ridgeville; Brenneman--Sheffield Lake; Brown--
     Lorain; Burns--Painesville; Clark--Lorain; Cockerham--Parma; 
     Coffey--Geneva; Coleman--Cleveland; Colon--Cleveland; Corey--
     Perry; Cozart--Warrensville Heights; Dailey--Cleveland; 
     Davis--Euclid; Dean--Strongsville; Dennis--Cleveland; 
     Eckenrode--North Ridgeville; Etheridge--Warrensville Heights; 
     Flowers--North Olmsted; Gibons--Fairview Park; Gigliotti--
     Strongsville; Gunkelman--Strongsville; Haavisto--Wickliffe; 
     Hollars--Vermilion.
       Hollis--Mentor; Hopkins--Painesville; Inchaurregui--Lorain; 
     James--Orwell; Jordan--South Euclid; Joy--Geneva; Kusar--
     Kirtland; Leggett--Bedford Heights; Lopez--Avon; Mahamett--
     North Olmsted; Manley--Cleveland; Martin--Lyndhurst; 
     Mcready--Lakewood; Miller--Geneva; Nichols--Geneva; Noble--
     Elyria; Oleson--Strongsville; Parkinson--North Olmsted; 
     Randle--Maple Heights; Reilly--Bay Village; Reisinger--
     Wellington; Roby--Elyria; Schumaker--Wellington; Simpkins--
     Maple Heights; Smith--Mayfield Heights; Snowden--Cleveland; 
     Solomon--Strongsville; Stocker--Geneva; Wagner--Orwell; 
     Warner--North Ridgeville; Weed--Avon Lake; Weidrick--
     Wellington; Wilms--Elyria.


                      United States Air Force--43

       Adams--South Euclid; Barnard--Berea; Boros--Strongsville; 
     Boukzam--Strongsville; Breeds--Lorain; Camera--Cleveland; 
     Cash--Medina; Conkle--South Euclid; Goodwin--Wadsworth; 
     Hazelett--Amherst; Henderson--Akron; Jedrzejek--Olmsted 
     Falls; Kadow--Avon Lake; Keiter--Wickliffe; Keleman--
     Wadsworth; Kieswetter--North Olmsted; LaSalvia--Strongsville; 
     Lawrence--Parma Heights; Manning--Kent; McGhee--Euclid; 
     Miller, A.--Lorain; Moccia--Lakewood; Moff--Atwater; Neiger--
     Middleburg Heights; Nelson--Fairview Park; Pallens--Lorain; 
     Perala--Seven Hills; Pipper--Parma; Plickert--Painesville; 
     Richards--Medina; Roetzel--Parma; Rumpf--LaGrange; Saari--
     Strongsville; Serago--Concord; Starks--South Euclid; Stewart 
     III--Wellington; Stogioglou--Wellington; Suszynski--Chardon; 
     Tagliarini--Brookpark; Tomor--Barberton; Topoly--Akron; 
     Touma--Cuyahoga Falls; Zavodny II--Euclid.


                      United States Coast Guard--3

       Linden--Norwalk; Simko--Fairport Harbor; Werdebaugh--
     Wellington.


                      Ohio Army National Guard--82

       Batcha--Northfield; Bloch, Jr.--Streetsboro; Caraballo--
     Columbia Station; Carter--Cleveland; Champlin--Akron; --
     Cleveland--Cleveland; Clow--Cleveland; Davis-Johnson--
     Cleveland; Derr--Garrettsville; Distad--Shaker Heights; 
     DoBroka--North Royalton; Dosen--Broadview Heights; Downey--
     Akron; Drzik--Akron; Dunning--Chardon; Eisenhauer--
     Doylestown; Eldred--Avon Lake; Fiscus--LaGrange; Franchino--
     Streetsboro; Freeman--Cleveland; Galik, Jr.--Norton; 
     Georskey--Ashtabula; Golnick--Willoughby Hills; Gonzalez 
     Sanchez--Kenmore; Grimes--Norton; Habeck--Wakeman; Haefka--
     Lorain; Hallisy--Lorain; Hendrickson--Brookpark; Herman--
     Chesterland; Hill--Brunswick; Hines--Ashtabula; Jackson--
     Cleveland; Johnson, A.--Cleveland; Johnson, E.--Elyria; 
     Johnson, G.--Amherst; Jones--Warrensville; Keown--Mogadore; 
     Kingzett--Independence; Knight--Ashtabula; Lee--North 
     Ridgeville.
       Loga--Ashtabula; Loraditch--Akron; Macklin--Bedford; 
     Mansfield--Akron; Martin--Elyria; Mathews--Pierpont; May--
     Akron; Mclaughlin, C.--Strongsville; Mclaughlin, L.--
     Wasdworth; Milbrandt--Ashtabula; Miller--Ashtabula; Morales--
     Cleveland; Myers--Akron; Newell--Barberton; Nichols--Akron; 
     Norton, Jr.--Cleveland; O'Connor--Litchfield; Patterson--
     Lorain; Pedreschi--Avon; Petrella--North Royalton; Phillips--
     Medina; Powell--Akron; Pozega--Amherst; Raker--Norton; Reid--
     Elyria; Reyes--Cleveland; Reynolds--Streetsboro; Richard--
     Oberlin; Rohal--Ravenna; Roldan--Cleveland; Rosa--Lorain; 
     Ryan--Kent; Schwarz--Akron; Sharp--Euclid; Sweeny--Columbia 
     Station; Thomas--Eastlake; Thomas--Akron; Townsend--
     Twinsburg; Wiley--Avon; Williams--Cleveland; Wolters II--
     Akron.


                           Ohio Air Guard--6

       Berg--Hinckley; Delzoppo--Eastlake; Leonard--Akron; Mele--
     Willowick; Shamatta--Strongsville; Tushar--North Canton.

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