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    • Welcome Back - Rhythm, But Not Blues
    • This I Believe
    • Manage Your STRESS
    • It's All About Having a Growth Mindset
    • The Cost of Conformity
    • The Giver
    • The Reading Mindset
  • Second Quarter
    • Themes in the novel THE GIVER
    • For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
    • Fig Lang (Figurative Language)
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate
  • Third Quarter
    • Argument Reading
    • Argument Writing
    • In-text Citations
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • I heard it through the grapevine...
    • Literary Allusions
  • Fourth Quarter
    • P o E t R y
    • The Scorpio Races
    • Writing & Performing a MONOLOGUE
    • Me, Myself, and My Gender
    • Themes in Literature
    • Innovating to Solve Real-World Problems
    • The Design Thinking Process
  • Book Club & Socratic Seminar
  • One Community; Six Words
    • Check Out Our Project!
    • North Olmsted's African American History
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    • North Olmsted's Geologic & Natural History
    • North Olmsted's Native People
    • North Olmsted's Veterans
    • North Olmsted's Women
  • Conducting Research Like a Boss
  • The Three Types of Irony
  • The Cost of Conformity
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North Olmsted's Veterans

Voices in the Night

Mr. Thomas, the author of the book Images of American, North Olmsted, has written a wonderful play about  nine of the people buried at our very own Butternut Ridge Cemetery.  Included among them are Helen Briggs Elliot and Cassie Salisbury, two women who served as nurses WWI, Samuel Porter, a Revolutionary War veteran,   Samuel Ames, a veteran of the Civil War, Fred Tuttle, a veteran of the Philippine War, and George Biddulph, a murderer.

More About Our N.O. Veterans

Curtis Phillips
According to the Plain Dealer and sources at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument the last Cavalry officer and second to last member of The Grand Army Memorial Post 141 in Cuyahoga County was Mr. Curtis Phillips.  Mr. Phillips is buried at the Butternut Ridge Cemetery.
​clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/ohio/last-veterans.htm

Joe DeSalvo, WWII veteran from North Olmsted
www.north-olmsted.com/2018/10/22/david-wooster-and-joe-desalvo/

John Carpenter, of Frostville Museum's Carpenter House fame, was a soldier in the Civil War
www.olmstedhistoricalsociety.org/carpenter-house

North Olmsted's Veterans Plaza at North Olmsted Park
www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=44854

Dewey Limpert, WWII veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart 
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/newsletters/honoring-ohios-veterans-

D. Brock Foster, Major U.S. Air Force, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/article/veteran-awarded-distinguished-flying-cross-at-ceremony-in-north-olmsted

Interview with William E. King, WWII veteran who fought in the Pacific Theater 
www.memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.03542/transcript?ID=sr0001

Samuel Porter, American Revolutionary War veteran buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
​​www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7HME_Samuel_Porter

CPL Thomas George Graff, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the Vietnam War Memorial known as "The Wall" on panel 18E, Line 121
​​www.virtualwall.org/dg/GraffTG01a.htm

Kenton Elwood Henninger, Vietnam War veteran whose name appears on the "The Wall" on panel 30W, Line 63
www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/22589/KENTON-E-HENNINGER

Six North Olmsted Veterans Who Died in the Vietnam War
To learn more about these brave men, go to the Virtual Wall for Ohio, scroll down until you see our city (city names are in alphabetical order) and click on the men we lost
www.virtualwall.org/istate/istatoh.htm

VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Post 7647
​​www.vfw7647.com

Revolutionary War Vets Help Settle N.O.
www.morningjournal.com/news/cuyahoga-county/north-olmsted-traces-roots-to-settlers-from-vermont-connecticut/article_a1c73b04-184a-11e9-9b7d-2331303902e0.html

Data About N.O. Veterans by War (scroll to the bottom of the page)
worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/north-olmsted-oh-population/​

The Grave of Samuel Porter, Revolutionary War Solider Buried at Butternut Ridge Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/memorial/6631799