Riding With Heroes

S1:E4, Coming soon

Silver Cross Mother

Riding With Heroes

Paul 'Trapper' Cane rides with one of his own heroes: Anita Cenerini, Canada's National Silver Cross Mother. Chosen by the Royal Canadian Legion, Anita is the first National Silver Cross Mother in Canadian history whose son died by suicide following his service. Private Thomas Welch came home from Afghanistan carrying wounds no one could see, and his mother has spent the years since fighting to have his sacrifice recognized alongside every other.

Filmed in Port Hope on the Heroes Highway Ride and in Ottawa, the episode follows Trapper as he carries Anita from the Canadian War Museum to Beechwood, the National Military Cemetery. Along the way, they talk about Thomas, about the families who bear the Silver Cross, and about the Memorial Cross itself, a distinctly Canadian tribute created in 1919 that Trapper's own family received three times after the Second World War.

It is a ride about a mother's strength, a soldier's memory, and a truth Anita has given the whole country: service and sacrifice come in every form, and every one of them counts.

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S1:E5, Coming soon

Courage Under Fire, featuring Phil Badanai

Riding With Heroes

On New Year's Eve 1994, Private Phil Badanai and Master Corporal John Tescione were driving their Iltis patrol vehicle through a Serb-held town in Croatia when Serbian troops opened fire. More than 100 rounds struck the vehicle. Phil was shot in the back, and John was hit in the head and arms. Both seriously wounded, they still drove 15 kilometres back to camp, where they received the medical treatment that saved their lives.

That Iltis now sits in the Canadian War Museum, bullet holes and all, with the blood from that night still dried on it. In this episode, Paul 'Trapper' Cane meets Phil inside the museum, beside the very vehicle he drove through the firefight, and beside Katherine Taylor's painting recreating the attack.

Standing where history is kept, Phil tells the story in his own words. It is a rare privilege: a firsthand account of a night most Canadians have never heard about, and of the courage it took to keep driving.

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S1:E6, Coming soon

Tomb of the Unknown

Riding With Heroes

Inside the Canadian War Museum's Memorial Hall there is a single object: a battlefield-stained headstone bearing one maple leaf. For 82 years it stood in Cabaret-Rouge cemetery in France, over the grave of an unidentified Canadian killed in the fighting around Vimy Ridge. That soldier now rests at the foot of the National War Memorial as Canada's Unknown Soldier, and his marker remains on duty in Ottawa.

Paul 'Trapper' Cane brings a rare guest into this quiet chamber: SGM Adrian B. Hamrick (ret.), Tomb Guard #367, one of the few Sentinels ever chosen to stand watch over the Unknowns of America. Two old paratroopers from two different armies, meeting in person for the first time, they reflect on what the Unknown represents: the more than 28,000 Canadians with no known grave, and the families who finally have a place to mourn.

Trapper also shares the hall's secret. Every November 11, at the 11th hour, a shaft of sunlight enters through a single window and falls directly on the headstone, renewing a nation's promise: We will never forget.

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Documentary, Coming soon

Echoes of Thunder

Riding With Heroes

Every Memorial Day weekend for 32 years, the streets of Washington, D.C. shook with the sound of motorcycles. Rolling Thunder, the 'Demonstration Ride' founded by Vietnam veterans in 1988, became the world's largest gathering of veterans on motorcycles, all riding for one cause: full accountability for America's prisoners of war and those still missing in action.

In 2019, the riders gathered in the capital for what was announced as the final national ride. The Veterans Channel was there to capture it.

Host Paul 'Trapper' Cane takes viewers inside the event as it unfolds. Riding alongside the veterans and supporters who made the journey, Trapper shares the conversations, the history and the meaning behind three decades of thunder, and asks what becomes of a promise when the engines go quiet.

Echoes of Thunder is a record of a historic farewell and a tribute to the men and women who refused to let the missing be forgotten.

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