SPORTS I B1 LOCAL | A3 LAKE MINNEOLA’S LEESBURG DREW MENDOZA MAIN STREET ENDING COLLEGE PROGRAM EARNS CAREER IN STYLE HONOR FROM STATE Tuesday, June 4, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Trump visit opens with queen By Jonathan Lemire II and stepping up a long- greeted them. They received — and talk of impeaching after a newspaper column and Kevin Freking running feud with London’s a deafening royal gun salute him — heated up. Yet Trump, in which Khan said Trump The Associated Press anti-Trump mayor before as they walked to the palace forever a counter-puncher, did not deserve red-carpet his plane had touched down where a waiting queen smiled immediately roiled diplo- treatment and was “one of LONDON — Mixing pag- on English soil. at the president. matic docility by tearing into the most egregious examples eantry and political pugilism, Trump and his wife, Mela- Those were the images London Mayor Sadiq Khan. of a growing global threat” President Donald Trump nia, flew by helicopter to sought by a White House With the trip already at from the far-right to liberal opened a state visit to Brit- Buckingham Palace, land- eager to showcase Trump risk of being overshadowed democracy. ain on Monday by drawing a ing on a lawn where Prince as a statesman while, back by Brexit turmoil, Trump smile from Queen Elizabeth Charles and his wife, Camilla, home, the race to replace him unleashed a Twitter tirade See TRUMP, A5 US, Mexico Lake County bagpipers offi cials to begin talks add to D-Day memorial over tariff s, border By Luis Alonso Lugo, Lisa Mascaro and Hope Yen The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mexico launched a counteroffensive Monday against the threat of U.S. tariffs, warning not only that it would hurt the economies of both countries but also could cause a quarter-million more Central Americans to migrate North. A high-level delegation from the Mexican government held a press conference at the embassy in Washington, making the case against the threat by President Donald Trump of imposing a 5% tariff on Mexican imports by June 10. Trump is in London for a long- planned overseas trip, leaving others to stem a potential trade crisis. It is unclear what more Mexico can do — and what will be enough — to satisfy the presi- dent. Trump’s Republican allies warn that tariffs on Mexican imports will hit U.S. consumers and harm the economy. The president all but taunted negotiators for a quick resolu- tion. “Mexico is sending a big delegation to talk about the Border,” the president tweeted Sunday. “Problem is, they’ve Marion-Loghrian Bolton plays the bagpipes at a Memorial Day ceremony at AmVets Post 2006 in Leesburg on May 27. [PAUL RYAN / CORRESPONDENT] been ‘talking’ for 25 years. We want action, not talk.” Group will take part in Thursday’s ceremony See MEXICO, A5 Linda Charlton recall the D-Day invasion 75 of Oveido, both members of will be part of the 30-member Correspondent years ago, notes from Lake the City of Mount Dora Pipes Freedom Band that will play County will be heard in the and Drums, will be there along alongside the New York City As veterans, dignitaries and sound of bagpipes playing with Jose Ortiz, of Longwood, Police Department Emerald visitors from around the world between the speeches. who used to play regularly Society Pipes and Drums. gather on the French coast at Marion Bolton, of Lees- with the Mount Dora group. Normandy on Thursday to burg, and Pete Linnenkamp, At the D-Day ceremony, they See D-DAY, A5 COMING THIS WEEK FDA fi nds contamination in foods by ‘forever chemicals’ DIGITAL By Ellen Knickmeyer, industrial compounds found likely to add to concerns last year cited consistent EXTRA: John Flesher and substantial levels in some raised by states and public associations between very Michael Casey grocery store meats and health groups that President high levels of the indus- D-DAY, 75 The Associated Press seafood and in off-the-shelf Donald Trump’s administra- trial compounds in peoples’ YEARS LATER chocolate cake, accord- tion is not acting fast enough blood and health risks but WASHINGTON — The ing to unreleased findings or firmly enough to start said there was not enough An 8-page special Food and Drug Administra- FDA researchers presented regulating the manmade evidence to prove the com- section on the tion’s first broad testing of at a scientific conference in compounds, called “forever pounds as the cause. defi ning battle food for a worrisome class Europe. chemicals.” of World War II in of nonstick, stain-resistant The FDA’s disclosure is A federal toxicology report See FDA, A5 Thursday’s e-edition Volume 143, Issue 155 Local & State ................ A3 Sports...........................B1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion .......................A9 Comics ........................ B6 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Weather ......................A10 Classified ..................... B7 A2 Tuesday, June 4, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD D-Day haunts, drives its vets By John Leicester in the first wave of Ameri- and Raf Casert can troops aiming for Omaha The Associated Press Beach, the bloodiest of the D-Day landing zones. OMAHA BEACH, France — The former private in the They are back, some for the 29th Infantry Division was first time since war stole their immediately injured and he innocence 75 years ago on still suffers from post-trau- Today’s code is... Normandy’s D-Day beaches. matic stress disorder. They are back on battle- “For a long time, I really fields where the World War didn’t want to come back, moola16 II veterans saw friends killed, and I kind of dreaded it,” he took lives themselves, were said. “I can’t say that I really CODE VALID UNTIL THE NEXT PUBLISH DATE. scarred physically and men- enjoy the whole thing, you NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. OFFICIAL RULES tally and helped change the know? When I head back on AT 150KGIVEAWAY.COM course of history. the beach and all that kind Given the painful memo- of stuff, sometimes it does ries, given their unfamiliarity World War II veterans from the United States salute as they pose things to you. But like this, Enter with the country they liber- in front of Les Braves’ monument at Omaha Beach on Monday in you can see kind of what we now at ated, given the difficulty Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. [RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH/ was fighting for and, you 150KGiveaway.com of traveling abroad, why THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] know, that makes a little are Americans in their 90s difference.” coming back for this week’s check but isn’t sure. The sur- the spot. I see it in my mind With a flamethrower anniversary of the June 6, vivor of Utah Beach, one of all the time,” he said. strapped to his back, Pick- 1944, invasion of Normandy? the five D-Day beaches, had Long unable to speak to ett was wounded when an IN BRIEF For many, returning is a always refused to go back to his family about his expe- explosion tore at the landing duty, a way to honor fallen Normandy. riences, he recently started craft transporting him onto HOUSTON comrades and fulfill prom- “I said, ‘No,’ I said, ‘I don’t writing down his recollec- a beach which was sprayed Remains found in Arkansas ises they made as young men think I can handle it. I’ll get tions so they’ll know, when by German machine-gun identifi ed as Maleah Davis never to forget each other. too emotional,’” he says. he’s gone, what he went and artillery fire. Some buried their memo- Now 93-years-old, Dietch through. “I did a few chap- He blacked out and woke The remains of a child found ries for decades but feel a decided he must see where ters just before I came here,” up on the water’s edge, next in Arkansas last week are those compulsion to face their good friends died and revisit Dietch says. to a dead body and unable to of a missing 4-year-old Texas demons before going to their the spot by a seawall where he “It changed my life, yeah,” move his legs. Plucked out of girl, Maleah Davis, a medical graves. Many fear the world was hit by a piece of shrapnel he said of D-Day. “It taught the water by another landing examiner said Monday. is forgetting and want young that left a fist-sized dent in me to be very tolerant. God craft, he was hospitalized in The Harris County Insti- people to hear their stories his helmet. gives us free will; you’ve got England and then returned to tute of Forensic Sciences said one last time. Dietch, who is from to use it.” Normandy, where he fought it had positively identified the The inevitability of all vet- Nevada, was 18-years-old Having long kept his war in the dense hedgerows that remains found in a garbage erans of the 1939-1945 war when he landed and says to himself, Dietch thanks slowed the Allied advance bag near a freeway outside the being gone soon is acting as “after the first day I felt like I people for listening to his and was injured again. town of Hope, Arkansas, which a clarion call. From across the was 30. I went in a little boy recollections now. Pickett says he long tried is located about 30 miles (48 globe, people are converg- and came out a man. You “I feel better when I speak to deal alone with his trauma kilometers) northeast of the ing on Normandy to follow grow up fast.” about it,” he said.