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Fewest
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D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944:
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009
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Provided (left); National Archives (above)
LEFT: Jouett Faulkner as a combat medic in 1944. ABOVE: Allied soldiers
storm Normandy beach on their way to routing the Germans. Faulkner
was part of the invasion 65 years ago today.
HE HELPED SAVE THE WORLD
‘There aren’t many
of us left standing,’
but they’ll reunite
today in N.Ky.
[email protected]
The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy
Jouett Faulkner, of Dry Ridge, shows a composite labeled “Faulkner
Pride,” which shows him (lower right) and his four brothers, three of
whom served in World War II. The other fought in the Korean War.
fire, from one fallen comrade to another, making instant decisions about who
could be saved and who would die.
Watching as life fades from a soldier’s
eyes as you frantically try to close a
gaping hole in his chest.
There was pride, too – pride in being
part of a well-planned invasion that, ultimately, freed millions of people and
broke the back of the Nazi war machine. Not many men can say they
helped save the world.
See FAULKNER, Page A10
AT NKY.COM: 87-YEAR-OLD WWII VETERAN JOUETT
FAULKNER REVISITS D-DAY. SEARCH: VIDEO
m REDS EDGED
In a beautiful night for
baseball, Reds fans left
Great American Ball Park
disappointed Friday night
as the Chicago Cubs outscored the Reds 2-1 in the
series opener.
The two NL Central Division rivals will meet at 7:10
this evening, then again at
1:10 Sunday afternoon.
SPORTS D1
INDEX
Six sections, 169th year, No. 58
Advice ............ E2 Movies ........... E9
Business ........ C1 Obituaries ... B2,4
Comics ........... E8 Opinions ...... A13
Home Style ..... E1 Puzzles ......... E10
Lotteries ......... A2 Sports ............ D1
Classified ............................. E11, F1-12
First Run Classified ...........................D4
Copyright, 2009, The Kentucky Enquirer
Portions of
today’s Enquirer
were printed on
recycled paper
By Jeannine Aversa
The Associated Press
By Howard Wilkinson
Jouett Faulkner, an 87-year-old
World War II veteran from Dry Ridge,
knows what it would take to put an end
to war.
If he could, he would take every
president, prime minister and potentate in the world, stuff them into a time
machine and set the controls for 65
years ago today. He would set them
down on Omaha Beach at Normandy.
He would make them see what he saw,
feel what he felt that day, when he was
a 22-year-old Army combat medic.
“That would be the end of it,” Faulkner said. “No man who was there that
day could ever send young men into
that.”
Faulkner lived through that day, but
as many as 4,400 of the soldiers who
stepped off the landing craft at Normandy that day did not. Thousands
more were wounded.
He came home, got married, raised
a family and went on with his life. He
has carried the memories with him every single day since then – memories
of what he saw and what duty called on
him to do on the day that has gone
down in history as “D-Day.”
The memories are vivid – the terror,
the gore, the chaos. The sight of a platoon of his fellow medics from the 60th
Medical Battalion stepping off the landing craft, watching as seven of them
were cut down – killed – by artillery
and rocket fire while still hip-deep in
water, never touching solid ground.
The memory of racing, under sniper
May unemployment rate
jumps, but outlook better
m GOVERNOR’S AGENDA EXPANDS
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Gov. Steve Beshear’s everevolving agenda for the June
15 special session now includes a tax incentive for the
operators of the Kentucky
Speedway in Gallatin County.
Friday was the third day in
a row that Beshear added
items to the special-session
agenda, which also includes a
bill to allow Kentucky horse
tracks to operate video casinos and a fiscal plan to plug a
$1 billion hole in the state’s
next fiscal year budget that
begins July 1.
The items added Friday, including the Speedway incentives, deal with providing tax
breaks to industries in Kentucky and incentives to attract
new jobs.
In a statement, Beshear
The monthly unemployment rate for
the past 13 months:
Seasonally adjusted
9.4%
10 percent
9
8
7
6
5
M J J A S O ND J FMA M
2008
’09
Monthly net change in nonfarm,
payroll employment:
Seasonally adjusted
In thousands
said the incentives “would create jobs and hundreds of
millions of dollars in investment for Kentucky.”
“In a time when every job is
sacred and every economic investment a cause to celebrate,
Kentucky must be aggressive
in identifying and seizing every opportunity that presents
itself,” Beshear told reporters
Friday in Frankfort. “These
are measures that, I believe,
have deep and broad support
in each chamber. It is time
now to move them – quickly –
through this process, which is
exactly what a short and necessary special session is designed for.”
Track operator Bruton
Smith has said the $30 million
sales tax break will help offset
the costs of a $75 million exSee BESHEAR, Page A10
Camp tour
solemn time
for Obama
By Mark S. Smith
The Associated Press
WEIMAR, Germany –
President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp
Friday and said the lesson for
the modern world is vigilance against evil, against
subjugation of the weak and
against the “cruelty in ourselves.”
Obama honored the
56,000 who died at the Nazi
camp and the thousands who
survived. He invoked, too,
his great-uncle, who helped
liberate a Buchenwald satellite prison in 1945 and came
back a haunted man.
“More than half a century
later, our grief and our out-
-345,000
0
-200
-400
-600
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M J J A S O ND J FMA M
2008
’09
Source: Department of Labor
The Associated Press
Business, C1
m Saturn dealers happy about
brand’s sale to Penske.
m Why, when fewer jobs are
cut, does jobless rate rise?
steadily until late next year at
the earliest.
The job losses were the
fewest since September and
the fourth straight month in
which the pace of layoffs
slowed. In another heartening
note, job losses for March and
April turned out to be 82,000
less than the government initially reported.
With no place for the out-ofwork to land, the unemployment rate bolted to 9.4 percent
from 8.9 percent in April. It
was the highest rate since August 1983.
m NEVER DENY THE HOLOCAUST, PRESIDENT SAYS
Beshear also wants
Speedway incentive
By Patrick Crowley
WASHINGTON – Employers throttled back on layoffs in May and cut the fewest
jobs in any month since the financial crisis erupted last fall
– raising the brightest hope
yet that an economic recovery
will take hold later this year.
But with companies still reluctant to hire, the nation’s
jobless rate rose to a quartercentury high of 9.4 percent,
and it likely will keep rising into 2010, possibly within striking distance of its post-World
War II peak of 10.8 percent.
The economy shed 345,000
jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday – half what it
was losing in a month at the
start of the year. But the report also underscored how
hard it has been for America’s
14.5 million unemployed to
find new jobs.
“Less bad, yes,” Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist
at High Frequency Economics, said in summarizing the
economy. “Good, no.”
Companies probably won’t
ramp up hiring until they feel
sure that a recovery is here to
stay. Still, considering the
damage the recession has
wrought – 6 million jobs lost
since December 2007 – it was
encouraging that employers
cut far fewer jobs in May.
The 345,000 jobs lost was
down sharply from 504,000 in
April.
“The light at the end of the
tunnel just got a lot brighter,”
Nigel Gault, economist at IHS
Global Insight, said.
But not so bright that economists expect more employers to start hiring this year.
Economists expect the pace of
layoffs to keep tapering off,
but they don’t think the economy will begin to create jobs
Unemployment
President
Barack
Obama and
Buchenwald
concentration camp
survivor Elie
Wiesel visit
a memorial
site inside
Buchenwald
on Friday.
AP/Markus
Schreiber
Inside, A12
Obama gets reality check
from a complex Mideast.
rage over what happened
have
not
diminished,”
Obama said after witnessing
the
crematory
ovens,
barbed-wire fences, guard
towers and the clock set at
3:15, marking the moment of
the camp’s liberation by the
U.S. Army the afternoon of
April 11, 1945.
He challenged Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has expressed
doubts that 6 million Jews
died at the hands of the Nazis, to visit, too.
“To this day, there are
those who insist the Holocaust never happened,”
Obama said. “This place is
the ultimate rebuke to such
See HOLOCAUST, Page A10
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