Posted on 06/23/2018 7:39:34 PM PDT by eastforker
Doohan did so well he became a Commissioned Lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In 1940, he was sent to England for further training.
Fast forward to D-Day – the Allied Invasion of France on June 6, 1944. The British, Americans and Canadians were each assigned a portion of France’s Normandy beaches.
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#7. Though Lynch “was a female serving”, it was not the wrong place, only a wrong turn. The fact that she was “serving” and in a real war that claimed the lives of her comrades, means that she “was there” when so many others weren’t.
Both my son and son-in-law fought in Iraq, my son being one of the first Americans into that country (part of the 299th Army Engineers MRB were temporarily attached to a Kuwaiti berm destroying, trench filling engineering company on the morning of the attack on 3/20/03).
Lynch was doing her job. We thank her for that.
#15. Crusher. Doohan was that kind of nice guy you described.
At a Sci-Fi convention in the early 2000’s, I was able to meet him, Walter Koenig and Jeri Ryan among others. Takei was always friendly and signed items and posed for photographs.
Doohan was also a story teller, often about Star Trek scenes. Doohan and Takei (as well as others), had to learn to fence for one of their scenes. Well, Jimmy was on one side of a curtain practicing his lunges when Takei walked by on the other side. Doohan’s sword went through the curtain and just missed Takei, who ran out of the set screaming “Doohan’s trying to kill me.” Later there were laughs all around.
Scotty was a good person and is sorely missed.
I met Doohan many years ago and as he was signing an autograph, I saw he was missing a finger. I later found out why and regretted I didn’t know enough at the time to thank him for his service.
As a high school graduation present, I took my son to a Star Trek convention in Boston. We have a photo of us with Chekov.
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