[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 62 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2384-S2385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
TRIBUTE TO FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, today I wish to honor 461 high school
seniors in eight northeast Ohio counties for their commendable decision
to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces. Of these 461 seniors from 127 high
schools in 94 towns and cities, 141 will enter the Army, 126 will enter
the Marine Corps, 61 will enter the Navy, 25 will enter the Air Force,
1 will enter the Coast Guard, 103 will enter our Ohio Army National
Guard, and 4 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 461 will be recognized on May 4, 2016,
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 full support of this
Senate Chamber and the American people, who are with them in whatever
challenges may lie ahead.
These 461 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.
I would like to personally thank these 461 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 serve our country, a deep debt of gratitude.
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the names of
the 461 high school seniors.
There being no objection, the list was ordered to be printed in the
Record, as follows:
UNITED STATES ARMY--141
Achterhof--Medina; Addison--South Euclid; Alexander--
Medina; Artis--Brooklyn; Baldyga--Broadview Heights; Basile--
Maple Heights; Bell--Akron; Berry--North Ridgeville; Boggs--
Bedford; Bost--Chardon; Bradshaw--Newburgh Heights; Brandt--
Broadview Heights; Brasty--Parma; Brewer--Cleveland; Broeckel
II--Vermilion; Brown--Parma; Burgos--Lorain; Burt--Barberton;
Cannon--Cleveland; Chauvin--Hudson; Clark--Cleveland; Colon--
Berea; Cook--East Cleveland; Cooper--Sheffield Township;
Crowder--Akron; Curiale--Olmsted Falls; Daniels--Akron;
Davis--Lorain; DeJesus--Cuyahoga Falls; Delgado--Lorain;
Dingess--Wadsworth; Dominquez--Lorain; Felix--Parma Heights;
Finkel--Wellington; Fuss --Wadsworth; Gant--Ashtabula; Gary--
Garfield Heights; Giavonette--Parma; Golan--Brunswick;
Grays--South Euclid; Griffith--Jefferson; Hanrahan--Parma
Heights; Hardin--Martinez--Geneva; Hawkins--Painesville;
Hawthorne, J--Lorain; Hawthorne, N--Lorain; Hawthorne, J--
Lorain; Hayes--Ravenna; Hoch--Middleburg Heights; Holian--
Lakewood; Hughes III--Willoughby.
Irby--Garfield Heights; Jackson--Elyria; James, B--
Broadview Heights; James, D--Cleveland; Jennings--
Warrensville; Johnson, D--Akron; Johnson, J--Akron; Jones--
Barberton; Kelly--Ravenna; LaRiche--Geneva; Larsen--Stow;
Lausin--Kirtland; Lawson--Berea; Lewis--Elyria; Loosli--
Amhearst; Lopez, L--North Ridgeville; Magrell--Cuyahoga
Falls; Martinez--Ashtabula; McFall--Fairlawn; Mendez--
Painesville; Mickels--Akron; Milich--North Royalton; Miller--
North Royalton; Mongenel--Ashtabula; Montesano--Northfield;
Moore--Cleveland; Neely--Amherst; Nelson--Cleveland; Nemitz--
Conneaut; Nethers--Broadview Heights; Nowagarski--Grafton;
Page--Akron; Parella--Stow; Perrigan--Lorain; Poling--
Lakewood; Pullman--Parma; Purnell--Cleveland; Quinoes, Jr.--
North Olmsted; Radke--Parma Heights.
Raduka--Barberton; Raeburn--Cuyahoga Falls; Ramos--
Ashtabula; Rawdon--Akron; Reitz--North Ridgeville; Rhodes--
Akron; Richardson--Akron; Richmond--Cleveland; Ridenour--
Lodi; Rider--Kent; Rivera--Lorain; Roberts--Akron; Robertson,
J--Elyria; Robertson, N--Parma; Rodriguez--Caballero--
Cleveland; Rukule--Lyndhurst; Sack--Middleburg Heights;
Sanchez, E--Medina; Schmitt--Barberton; Schraner--Parma;
Schveder--Perry; Shaw--Cleveland; Sibits--Brunswick;
Sistrunk--Akron; Smith, L--WadsworthSpurlock--Oberlin;
Starcher--Windham; Sullivan--Windham; Terrasi--Willoughby;
Thacker--LaGrange; Thomas--Geneva; Toensing--Cleveland;
Tousley--Wadsworth; Vaughn, J--Lorain; Vaughn, T--Cleveland;
Walker, C--Cleveland; Walker, T--Conneaut; Ward--North
Royalton; Ware--Twinsburg; Webster--Lorain; Weintz--
Brunswick; White--Ashtabula; Wildhaber--Elyria; Williams, D--
Garfield Heights; Williams, M--Shaker Heights; Willyard--
Ravenna; Wojnowski--Wellington; Woodrum--Stow; Woods--North
Ridgeville; Workman--Wellington; Young--Elyria.
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS--126
Adler--Middlefield; Ady--Euclid; Allan--North Olmsted;
Arbogast--North Royalton; Augustine--Euclid; Bacik--North
Olmsted Bailey--Brunswick; Bakita--Barberton; Barnett--
Ashtabula; Bischoff--Norton; Bodkins--Wellington; Bosak--
Cleveland; Braman--Elyria; Brandt--Cuyahoga Falls; Brill--
Sheffield Lake; Brown--Elyria; Buckwald--Brunswick;
Burchard--Cleveland; Burgess--Wellington; Bush--Euclid;
Calafato--Kent; Campbell--Conneaut; Cannell--Northfield;
Carlyn--Akron; Carson--Akron; Castro--Cleveland; Cole--
Garfield Heights; Collins, J--Twinsburg; Collins, R--
Ashtabula; Cousin--Middleburg Heights; Crespo--Olmsted
Township; Crookston--Doylestown; Curry--Garfield Heights;
Cushing--Sheffield Lake; Cushman--Northfield; Durigon--
Painesville; Eaton--Wadsworth; Eberhardt--Fairlawn; Elliott--
Olmsted Falls.
Fairman--Madison; Fields--Oberlin; Figler--Northfield;
Fisher, C--Medina; Fisher, G--Medina; Flege--Stow; Foster--
Cruz--Cleveland; Frey--Sheffield; Gabel--Wadsworth; Grabowy--
Macedonia; Grasso--North Royalton; Gruber--Medina; Gutierrez
Rodriguez--Painesville; Hahn--Parma; Hall--Medina; Harrold--
Elyria; Hetrick--Cleveland; Hill--Akron; Holmes, Ja--Medina;
Holmes, Jo--Barberton; Jackson--Akron; Jerome--Bay Village;
Jones, A --Garrettsville; Jones, J--Cleveland; Jurgens--
Medina; Kahl--North Kingsville; Kisil--Cleveland; Kontz--
North Ridgeville; Kramer--Medina; Law--Bedford Heights;
Leisure--Chesterland; LeMire --Strongsville; Lepley--
Barberton; Locksey--North Olmsted; Maag--Berea; Maciech--
Parma; McCandless--Painesville; McCauley--Silver Lake;
McGarvey--Painesville; McLelland--Wadsworth; Medina--Lorain;
Mercedes--Lakewood; Mills--Wadsworth; Mori--Garfield Heights;
Morris--Cuyahoga Falls; Murray--Bedford; Nashroyal--Akron;
Newhart--Ashtabula.
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Nye--Richfield; Parham--Warrensville; Parker, D--Vermilion;
Parker, M--Cleveland; Parks--Olmsted Falls; Patton--
Ashtabula; Pescrilli--Willoughby; Pokorny--Akron; Porter--
Brooklyn; Rath--Macedonia; Reynolds--Akron; Robinson--North
Olmsted; Romosca--Deerfield; Rude--Medina; Rutherford--
Elyria; Savander--Euclid; Scherer--Ravenna; Serafin--Aurora;
Shaffstall--Brunswick; Sheridan--Cuyahoga Falls; Smith--
Euclid; Spang--Jefferson; Sterle--Macedonia; Turoslebron--
Cleveland; Vigilante--Cleveland; Vincent--Medina; Walling--
Mentor; Walsh--South Euclid; Walts--Amherst; Westfall--
Barberton; Wiggins--Elyria; Williams--Cleveland; Wise--Munroe
Falls; Yankie--Geneva; Yontosh--Parma Heights; Youngblood--
Maple Heights; Zadravec--Vermilion; Zamborsky--Independence;
Zamlen--Hinckley.
UNITED STATES NAVY--61
Akran--Garfield Heights; Ashe--Parma; Baker--Middleburg
Heights; Barnett--Westlake; Batman--Hinckley; Bell--Sullivan;
Berrios--Cleveland; Berry--Painesville; Besses--Bedford;
Boston--Willoughby; Brown--Bay Village; Chandler--Jones--
Cleveland; Cruz--Cleveland; DeHoff--Mantua; Fenner--Geneva:
Fowlkes--Cleveland; Garcia--Strongsville; Gunsalus--Parma
Heights; Haavisto--Wickliffe; Hada--Eastlake; Harrison, B--
Vermilion; Harrison, L--Orwell; Hegedeos--North Royalton;
Herron--Barberton; Jatzek--Grafton; Kerby--Ashtabula; Knox--
Ashtabula; Kolenz--Columbia Station; Leach--Chardon;
Leclerc--Amherst; Luther--Eastlake; McBride--Cleveland;
Menough--Garrettsville; Mitchell--Wadsworth; Mizak--Geneva;
Moosman--Strongsville; Pieczokna--Lodi; Readinger--Cleveland;
Reavis--Lorain.
Reynolds--Mentor; Richardson--Maple Heights; Rizzell--
Elyria; Roberts, A--University Heights; Roberts, M--
Barberton; Rodriguez--North Olmsted; Santiago--Cleveland;
Seaton--Todd--Mentor; Sinatra--Medina; Skvarek--Jefferson;
Stankiewicz--Medina; Strickland--Elyria; Tahir--Cleveland;
Vasiloff--Vermilion; van't Veer--Ashtabula; Weir--Akron;
Weise--Thompson; Wessel--Parma; Williamson--Ashtabula;
Wilson--Novelty; Yourich--Wellington; Zanick--North
Ridgeville.
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE--25
Arnern--Madison; Aslaksen--Wakeman; Battenhouse--Fairview
Park; Boles--Medina; Davis--Amherst; Duber--Olmsted Falls;
Fye--Lorain; Haslage--Avon; Honoshofsky--Wellington; Hylton--
Brook Park; Johnson--Amherst; Kuzak--Amherst; Lemieux--
Elyria; Linden--Elyria; Medina--Lorain; Miracle--Elyria;
Newsome--North Ridgeville; Sabin--Kirtland; Sapp--Rocky
River; Schneider--Wellington; Singh--Berea; Torres--
Cleveland; Voiers--Westlake; Wilhelm--Fairview Park;
Yandell--Chesterland.
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD--1
Karlovec--Akron.
OHIO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD--103
Alexander--Richmond Heights; Anderson, Jr.--Maple Heights;
Aumann--Mentor; Barnes--Owens--Cleveland; Barr--Barberton;
Bevins--Jefferson; Blankenship--Wellington; Boyes--Hartville;
Brantley--Cleveland; Brooks--Sheffield Lake; Brown--
Wadsworth; Burk--Olmsted Falls; Clack--Euclid; Clark, C--
Akron; Clark, Jr., R--Richmond Heights; Coblentz --
Middlefield; Colston--Cleveland; Conley--Akron; Cope--Norton;
Diaz--Brooklyn; Dunning--Chardon; Ellis--Cleveland; English--
Jefferson; Fagan--Olmsted Falls; Fifer--Munroe Falls.
Filiaggi--Elyria; Florence--Streetsboro; Ford--Cleveland;
Frazier--Mentor; Frindt--North Olmsted; Frolo--North Olmsted;
Garlak--Chesterland; Giron--Cleveland; Gonzalez--Sanabria--
Lorain; Gower, Jr.--Hinckley; Grace--North Olmsted; Hadlock--
Berea; Hardwick--Barberton; Hayes, C--North Olmsted; Hayes,
S--Medina; Heatwall--Tallmadge; Heim--Windham; Hilliard--
Brook Park; Howard--Wellington; Jackson, D--Cleveland;
Johnson, O--Hudson; Johnson, W--South Euclid; Jones--
Cleveland; Jordan--Cleveland; Karasek--Mogadore; Kelly--
Brecksville; Kiarie--Solon; Korylak--Cleveland; Lee--Akron;
Legky--Hartville; Lewis--Ravenna; Livengood--Mentor;
Maxwell--Howe--Barberton; Maybaugh--Wellington; McKenzie--
Cleveland.
Mendez--Cleveland; Messina--Concord Township; Mize--
Sheffield Lake; Moore--Barberton; Myers--Rocker--Akron;
Nichols--Barberton; Nicodemus--Uniontown; Norwalk--North
Royalton; Novak--North Olmsted; Nunn--Elyria; Ocheltree--
Barberton; Omeara--Conneaut; Osborne--Brunswick; Parker, I--
Cleveland; Parker, M--Cleveland; Peebles--North Ridgeville;
Pishner--Elyria; Pool--Elyria; Prebonick--Akron; Proctor--
Akron; Pryor--Cleveland; Puzder--Parma; Querry--Barberton;
Rahman--Garfield Heights; Riddle-Lash--Cleveland; Rodriquez-
Santana--Lorain; Rosado--Elyria; Rose--Cleveland;
Shaffstall--North Ridgeville; Shukys--Ravenna; Simmons--
Garfield Heights; Slover--Mentor; Smith--North Olmsted;
Stanic--Euclid; Stecklein--Roaming Shores; Storrow--Clinton;
Tavano--Mentor; Terrell--Mogadore; Wanton--Tallmadge; Ware--
Maple Heights; Weenink--Gates Mills; Wills--Maple Heights;
Wiltrout--Columbia Station.
OHIO AIR NATIONAL GUARD--4
Koltas--Sheffield Lake; Laswell-Bernhard--North Warren;
Wilch-Hudson; Boukzam--Strongsville.
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