Besides Receiving The Aldebaran Whiskey From Data In Ten Forward

[The first post I read and the first thing I heard today which mentioned ANYTHING regarding the anniversary of D-Day today came from a Star Trek page on Facebook! Shame on us. – David]

Tomorrow [so this was posted yesterday] June 6 will mark the 72nd Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. Many celebrations will be held to pay homage to the heroic participants of this turning po...int in history. One of our own Star Trek family was one first wave participants on the Juno Beach , The Canadian D-Day Beach.
JIMMY DOOHAN
James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan . Member of The Greatest Generation and the Enterprise NCC 1701. [That's the original Star Trek from the late sixties.]
Honoring his service and memory today on the eve of D-Day.
Served in WWII and landed on first wave of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D DAY on Juno Beach
Wounded 6 times. Lost right middle finger.
Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry
4 in leg, 1 right middle finger, 1 in chest. Bullet stopped in chest by cigarette case given to him by brother.
His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal during his career as an actor.
Also flew in combat.
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery.
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with eleven other Canadian artillery officers] and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Artillery. All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were manned by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.
Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labeled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force". In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done"—earning himself a serious reprimand.
Inspired countless students to pursue careers in engineering with his portrayal of Scotty.


[Which goes with my theory that Star Trek inspires engineers and Star Wars inspires pilots.


Tomorrow I promise we will return to our regularly scheduled twenty-first century programming.]