[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 64 (Thursday, April 30, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2562-S2563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
RECOGNIZING FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I wish to honor 423 high school seniors
in 8 Northeast Ohio counties for their decision to enlist in the U.S.
Armed Forces. Of these 423 seniors from 120 high schools in 105 towns
and cities, 97 will enter the Army, 127 will enter the Marine Corps, 42
will enter the Navy, 24 will enter the Air Force, 3 will enter the
Coast Guard, 123 will enter our Ohio Army National Guard, and 7 will
enter the Ohio Air National Guard. In the presence of their parents/
guardians, high school counselors, military leaders, and city and
business leaders, all 423 will be recognized on May 6, 2015, 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. They should know that they have the full support of
this Senate Chamber and the American people, who are with them in
whatever challenges may lie ahead.
These 423 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
Senate, and openly debate the best solutions to the many diverse
problems that confront
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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 also the character, the values,
and the discipline that lead someone to put service to our Nation over
self.
I would like to personally thank these 423 graduating seniors for
volunteering to risk their lives in defense of our Nation. We owe them,
along with all those who serve our country, a deep debt of gratitude.
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the names of
the 423 high school seniors.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in
the Record, as follows:
UNITED STATES ARMY--97
Abrams--Cleveland; Apathy--Brook Park; Ashford--Maple
Heights; Axford--Elyria; Ballew--Akron; Barnett--Akron;
Barton--Ravenna; Bate-Keck--Garfield Heights; Beckwith--
Madison; Berry--Strongsville; Best--Bay Village; Black--
Cleveland; Bodi--Parma; Borkowski--Akron; Brown--Elyria;
Bures--Medina; Chesek--North Royalton; Colon--Parma;
Corcino--Lorain; Currence--Geneva; Daley--Olmsted Township;
Farmer--Cleveland; Fernandez--Bay Village; Fields--Ravenna;
Forcier--Mantua; Garcia-Kilrain--Elyria; Gargasz--Amherst;
Gerez--Garretsville; Gibson--Conneaut; Goan--Lakewood;
Griffie--Brook Park; Gronowski--Parma; Grzelak--Barberton;
Guest--Elyria; Hadden--Garfield Heights; Hathaway--Ravenna;
Haught--Lorain; Heiser--Strongsville; Hill--Norton; Johnson--
Akron; Jordan--Maple Heights; Kaur--Solon; Kerestly--Seville;
Kessler--Wadsworth; Klimavicius--Garfield Heights; Lacey--
Aurora; Lambert--Medina; Lemasters--Diamond; Leon Gonzalez--
Lorain; Lindsey--Lyndhurst.
Loughridge--Brunswick; Lyons--Ravenna; Madeja--Cleveland;
Marizek--Painesville; Mcgaha--Ravenna; Meacham--Akron;
Miller--Parma; Mitchell--Brooklyn; Mitchell--Ravenna; Montas
Correa--Elyria; Murphy--Painesville; Olavarria--Ashtabula;
Palmer--Grafton; Privara--Barberton; Ray--Akron; Razo--
Painesville; Reese--Cuyahoga Falls; Reinhardt--Amherst;
Rhinehardt--Twinsburg; Rigda--North Olmsted; Rubsam--Brook
Park; Ryman--Akron; Salvage--Strongsville; Sams--Wellington;
Schoen--Medina; Shahan--Mantua; Sherrill--Elyria; Shorter--
Wadsworth; Shumaker--Wellington; Simmons--Berea; Slusher--
Mentor; Smiley--Cleveland; Steele--Cleveland; Storey--
Chesterland; Szabo--Elryia; Torres--Cleveland; Tryon--Copley;
Turley--Cleveland; Van Horn--Cleveland; Vong--Elyria; West--
Cleveland; Wiley--Lorain; Williams--Solon; Wilson--Olmsted
Falls; Winston--North Olmsted; Witherspoon--Olmsted Township;
Zurowski--Macedonia.
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS--127
Abbenhaus--Brook Park; Angeles-Ballesteros--Solon; Bish--
Streetsboro; Bodjanac--Stow; Boesken--Olmsted Falls; Brown--
Cleveland; Brown--Lorain; Caraballo--Berea; Casey--Geneva;
Choby--Concord Township; Christoff--Stow; Cook--Middlefield;
Cool--Wadsworth; Cooney--Geneva; Cooper--Akron; Criddle--
Akron; Cummings--Bedford; Curtis--Aurora; Dabney--Cleveland;
Dautartus--Parma; Davis--Cleveland; Dean--Vermilion; Denton--
Brunswick; Dolly--Kent; Douangpanya--Akron; Drope--Garfield
Heights; Dudley--Akron; Estremera--Strongsville; Fatica--
Willoughby; Faupelcresong--Uniontown; Fleshman--Akron;
Folley--Lorain; Forester--Akron; Fox--Grafton; Garrett--
Akron; Garrow--Columbia Station.
Geiss--Brunswick; Gilbert--Painesville; Gingell--Cleveland;
Grimmett--Akron; Gump--Elyria; Haas--Copley; Hamilton--
Hudson; Hathaway--Akron; Hawkins--Doylestown; Headen--Stow;
Herrlinger--Akron; Hoover--Brunswick; Hopkins--Brunswick;
Howes--Vermilion; Huff--Elyria; Huff--Solon; Huston--
Brooklyn; Jackson--Chardon; Jennings--Hartville; Jerse--
Cleveland; Johnson--Bedford Heights; Jones--Westlake;
Jorgensen--South Euclid; Kellogg--Brunswick; Kelly--Medina;
Kerestesy--Jefferson; Kinds--Cleveland Heights; Kravchuk--
Mayfield; Ksajikyan--Parma; Lahtonen--Tallmadge; Lamatrice--
Garfield Heights; Larson--Lakewood; Llamas--Painesville;
Lowry--Eastlake; Lundmark--Bay Village; Lunsford--Cuyahoga
Falls; Mariner--Parma; Marks--Geneva; Matejovich--Solon;
McKenna--Elyria; Mencke--Austinburg; Midkiff--Amherst;
Moore--Cleveland; Myers--Shaker Heights.
Nowak--Brunswick; Nystrom--Euclid; Oberstar III--Ashtabula;
O'Donnell--Lakewood; O'Keefe--Solon; O'Neill--Elyria; Payne--
Parma; Peterson--Independence; Pilar--Homerville; Prosen--
Peninsula; Rahe--Westlake; Rakovec--Painesville; Rall--
Cleveland; Rios--Vermilion; Robishaw--Seville; Rosado--
Cleveland; Sabo--Akron; Salyer--Chagrin Falls; Santi--
Lakewood; Scott--Euclid; Seditz--Brook Park; Seredich--
Strongsville; Smiechowski--Wadsworth; Smith--Cuyahoga Falls;
Smith--Uniontown; Solon--Brook Park; Sprague--Mentor;
Stergar--Lakewood; Stewart--Wellington; Susakheil--Parma;
Swails--Painesville; Sylvester--Westlake; Tinch--Barberton;
Trevino--Akron; Turkovich--Geneva; Turner--Mayfield; Van
Pelt--Painesville; Vasquez--Lorain; Walters--Wellington;
Weimer--Lodi; Whitney--Norton; Willett--Strongsville;
Williams--Shaker Heights; Woodruff--North Olmsted; Wright--
Rome; Zindash--Jefferson; Zuchowsky--Wadsworth.
UNITED STATES NAVY--42
Adorno, W.--Lorain; Adorno, Z.--Westlake; Ainsworth--North
Ridgeville; Beebe--Ashtabula; Botez--Hartville; Cassity--
Painesville; Darby--Cleveland; DeJesus--Northfield;
Eddleman--Akron; Elliot--Uniontown; Esparza--Tallmadge;
Giddens--Cleveland; Green--Cleveland; Hanna--Ashtabula;
Hennessey--Bloomfield; Hutchinson--Cleveland; Johnson--Akron;
Kobernik--Jefferson; Krendick--North Canton; Kusar--Kirtland;
Maillis--Copley; Malon--Chardon; Marrero--Cleveland;
Mayberry--Ashtabula; Miller--Elyria; Moore--Lorain; Morey--
Solon; Morgan--Conneaut; Morrison--Akron; Navarro--Cleveland;
Panteloukas--Cleveland; Pasko--Ashtabula; Patterson--
Wadsworth; Pechatsko--Eastlake; Quaider--Medina; Root--
Conneaut; Sayre--Akron; Scheier--Brunswick; Sutton--Orwell;
Wallish--Northfield; Winters--Roaming Shores; Zahorai--
Brunswick.
UNITES STATES AIR FORCE--24
Burgess--Cleveland; Butcher--Madison; Dolan--Elyria;
Duffield--Westlake; Dunstan--Elyria; Ewing--Elyria;
Fitzgerald--Medina; Hill--South Euclid; Lewis--Mentor;
Loper--Parma; Lunato, Jr.--Grafton; Merriweather--Wickliffe;
Miranda--Elyria; Moran--Medina; Paalz--Berea; Richter--
Eastlake; Rivera--Berea; Ryder--Strongsville; Searight--
Bedford; Smith--Bedford; Smith--Kirtland; Thomas--Madison;
Washington--Berea; Yehl--Chardon.
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD--3
Chiyam--Fairview Park; Mullis--Akron; Tryon--Eastlake.
OHIO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD--123
Abrams--Ashtabula; Alicea--Cleveland; Bascomb--Cleveland;
Becker--Dorset; Bernardo--Ashtabula; Blackburn--Beachwood;
Boston--Hartville; Brown--Shaker Heights; Brown--Ashtabula;
Brown, Jr--New Franklin; Burgos--Cleveland; Burks--Chagrin
Falls; Camera--Wakeman; Cavett--Cleveland; Christian --
Elyria; Collins--Richmond Heights; Crider--Maple Heights;
Cronan--Hudson; Dean--Akron; Dennis--Twinsburg; Denson, Jr.--
Barberton; Drawkulich--Springfield; Dvorak--Chagrin Falls;
Eckenrode--Madison; Endsley--Amherst; Eshelman--Chagrin
Falls; Evans--Richmond Heights; Flowers--Wakeman; Friend--
Wellington; Frolo--North Royalton; Funk--Akron; Gautschi--
Geneva; Gonzalez--Lorain; Gray--Lakewood; Greene--Twinsburg;
Gruszka--Northfield; Guardo--Chardon; Guerra--Lakewood;
Hammond--Berea; Hancock--Canton; Hensal--Clinton; Hernandez--
Cleveland; Hernandez--Parma; Hodges--Strongsville; Hunt--
Brooklyn; Hurtt--Cleveland; Jancik--Lakewood.
Johnson--Stow; Kirby--Mentor-on-the-Lake; Ladow Ferguson--
Akron; Leski--Avon; Lewis--Windham; Locklear--Cleveland;
Losey--Painesville; Lostetter--Cuyahoga Falls; Maldonado--
Cleveland; Mallory--Rome; Marino--South Euclid; Mason--
Cleveland Heights; McEntee--Valley View; McGraw--Tallmadge;
McMullen--LaGrange; Miller--Conneaut; Miller--Grafton;
Miller--Wadsworth; Minor--Hudson; Mollick--Ashtabula; Moore--
Barberton; Moore--Cleveland; Moore--Uniontown; Moreno--
Cleveland; Mullins--Cleveland; Myers--Akron; Ness--
Painesville; Novah-Avila--Brooklyn Heights; Novello--Burton;
Ogden--Barberton; Panar, Jr.--Akron; Parsons--Elyria;
Patterson--Elyria; Perkins--Jefferson; Plants--Ashtabula;
Player--Cleveland.
Powers--Cleveland; Prater--Medina; Priem--Orwell; Pruitt--
Garfield Heights; Raser--Mentor; Reinhart--Uniontown; Rinas--
Olmsted Township; Rivers--Akron; Rondeau--North Olmsted;
Rose--Elyria; Rowe--Hartville; Ruyf--Olmsted Falls; Sanders,
Jr.--Akron; Semak--Painesville Township; Shiner--Kent;
Singh--Brooklyn; Smith--Akron; Somerville--Stow; Sporcich,
Jr.--Ashtabula; Stallworth--Copley; Starling--Barberton;
Stokes--Lakewood; Sturgill--Valley City; Sudyk--Painesville;
Sundman--Rock Creek; Tabler--Cuyahoga Falls; Taylor, G.--
Cleveland; Taylor, J/--Cleveland; Tester--Elyria; Thompson--
Akron; Thompson--Cleveland; Turner--Cleveland; VanHorn--
Elyria; Vaughn--Hudson; Wadesisi--Cleveland; Walls--Euclid;
Weigel--Painesville; Wheeler--Hiram; Whitten--Lorain;
Woodward--Akron.
OHIO AIR GUARD--7
Allen--Middleburg Heights; Birchler--Navarre; Day--Norton;
Handwerk II--Medina; Little--Norwalk; Wehrmeyer--Ryan;
Wooley--Boardman.
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