DESCRIPTION: The many yellow “ribbons” on lampposts along Main Street honor the Nyssa youths serving in the Iraq War, including Casey Cleaver. In 1939, Lange wrote that the population of Nyssa had “risen from 800 to 2000 in past three years”; in 2000, the population was just over 3,000 and declining. Nearly 20 percent of the town’s residents are foreign-born, nearly 60 percent are Hispanic or Latino, most of them Mexican Americans. Hispanic names are on the yellow ribbons too.