OH-16: John Boccieri Honors "America's Schoolmaster"

On Tuesday, Ohio State Senator John Boccieri along with co-sponsor Sen. Capri Cafaro of Liberty, D-32nd, offered sponsor testimony to the Senate's Highways and Transportation Committee in a package of four bills "to honor local deceased".

Among those honored in the bill were William Holmes McGuffey, "America's Schoolmaster", of whom Boccieri said,

"...was the educator, lecturer and author whose work became the standardized text for school children in the 19th Century."

The bill would designate a section of Interstate 680 in Mahoning County as the William Holmes McGuffey Memorial Highway.

Boccieri also gave testimony on behalf of a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who “suffered a deadly electric shock” while setting up concrete barriers on Interstate 76. The bill would designate the Lake Milton Bridge in Mahoning County the Peter J. DeLucia Memorial Bridge.

The other two honorees, not the least among them, I wish would be the last of which I would ever read or write, again.

The intersection of the intersection of U.S. Route 422 and state Route 82 as the Sgt. Marco Miller Memorial Interchange, in memory of the Warren native who re-enlisted in the National Guard following the events of Sept. 11, 2001. He died after being injured near Taji, Iraq, in December 2006.

Another bill would designate the intersection of state Routes 45 and 82 in Champion Township as the Sgt. Robert M. Carr Memorial Interchange. Carr enlisted in the Army after Sept. 11, 2001, while he was still a junior at Champion High School. He was killed after the vehicle he was driving rolled over an explosive device near Baghdad in March 2007.

How many more? How many more?