Remembrance Day Special
- Interview & Talk
- Remembrance & Honours
- Military Families
13 min
Country: 
Canada
About this film
Join us as we honour our Veterans this Remembrance Day in a 2023 interview with Canadian Military Veterans, Paul ‘Trapper’ Cane, and Earle Eastman.
Both men grew up watching the generations before them stand in silence on November 11, and both followed family tradition into uniform. Trapper served as an infantry soldier with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and the Canadian Airborne Regiment. His career ended after a parachute accident that led to two years in hospital and 19 surgeries. Earle served 33 years with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 20 of them in the combat arms, with tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
They speak candidly about the friends they lost and the hidden wounds that surface years after service. They describe how hard it is to come home with no clear path back into civilian life. They also talk about the Royal Canadian Legion and the Canadian Army Veterans (CAV) Motorcycle Units, which Trapper co-founded. These groups show up for repatriations, support grieving families and help veterans find each other.
Their message is a powerful one: two minutes of silence is no longer long enough to remember everyone they have lost, so they remember them every day, all year long.
Lest We Forget!
Details
- Genre
- Interview & Talk
- Themes
- Remembrance & Honours, Military Families
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2023
- Creators
- Darren McCabe, Scott Matheson
- Director
- Daniel Eskine
- Producer
- Daniel Eskine
