[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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