Lt. James Doohan and the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Lt. James Doohan and the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.
In his honor, we lend him a (finger):
Edit: not intended as an offense to Scotty, just found it funny that's the finger he lost and that there's multiple instances of flipping the bird (one of which is official).
... one a side note, I'm on the road on a slow internet connection ... I'm on mobile and I have barely one bar reception to stay online ... that was one hell of a download to get that image to load ... it took me 15 minutes to get it through.
That is extremely disrespectful. When someone risks there life and survives one of the bloodiest battles you don't give them the finger.
Doohan was in all his public appearances and talks a genuinely kind and thoughtful person. He even laughed about his missing finger later in life.
He lived through enough horrors in that war but life redeemed him a lot of joys through his work at Star Trek that I don't think he would have taken any of this as an offense. I certainly don't because I know where @[email protected] heart is at.
I'm sure Doohan would have had a laugh at this too.
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