2018's Memorial Day

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One of the things that makes it hard to tie Star Trek into every holiday, is the scarcity of crossover information...

This is our best tie-in to the military, since TOS:

"Greitens' service organization The Mission Continues has a partnership with Star Trek director J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Paramount Pictures, and that led to Greitens and his fellow ex-soldiers being cast as honor guards at a Starfleet memorial ceremony."

There is no one who has died while in military service, yet, that has a tie--that I can find. And with the improvement in percentages of US military that dies, that is going to be harder and harder to reconcile, as a tie-in. (This is a good thing!)

But fans have died in combat. The least we could do is remember the loss of people we could be arguing Discovery with, right now.

I did memorials for the  "big 4", in order to keep it to Star Trek theme:

James Doohan was the one who came closest, since D-day deaths were so tragically random.

 This was really the closest scene to a military style death, that I remember, out of the whole series.

And it got a laugh out of a surviving serviceman. They need laughter on rough days, like Memorial day.

And what's Memorial day without a few graves?  Btw, the coins on Nimoy's grave actually have a Memorial day meaning. Look up the tradition on the coins.

The fun thing about 

The first one I did, as I was looking for filler. I don't like "disrespecting military", and I had concerns with Military getting upset, with this one. Wanted to pull it, but was asked to keep it up.

Sucked to lose him, anyway.

Thanks to all who have done the thankless task, especially those who have paid with their lives.