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I just want to help my country, defend my country
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The Fruit Machine

I just want to help my country,defend my country, be there for my country

I just want to help my country,
defend my country, be there for my country

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I just want to help my country, defend my country,
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be there for my country.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:16
Uploaded
Jun 23, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
SandBay Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Some softened by age and sadness, others loud and angry, the voices of the survivors of Canada’s public service homosexual purge are now united, and determined. They are torqued by decades of silence, years of being ignored. They demand justice, and they want to be heard. Theirs is a story of betrayal that is both national and deeply personal. Men and women who dedicated their lives to public service, some signing oaths of allegiance and servitude; casualties of a political tapestry woven in the fibers of acute security measures that somehow became normalized.
- First of all, they want to train you - The Fruit Machine 00:13
- First of all, they want to train you
I cannot say that it was a piece of cake or easy, easy. - The Fruit Machine 00:07
I cannot say that it was a piece of cake or easy, easy.
- Get up at five o'clock in the morning, - The Fruit Machine 00:07
- Get up at five o'clock in the morning,
- You know, the crease in your pants - The Fruit Machine 00:12
- You know, the crease in your pants
If you can see your teeth in your boots, they're done, - The Fruit Machine 00:04
If you can see your teeth in your boots, they're done,
We had physical training. [Laughter] - The Fruit Machine 00:12
We had physical training. [Laughter]
Because you go through a lot of physical activities - The Fruit Machine 00:12
Because you go through a lot of physical activities
- I handled the rifle, the submachine gun, - The Fruit Machine 00:10
- I handled the rifle, the submachine gun,
I went on to win the Skill-at-Arms trophy - The Fruit Machine 00:12
I went on to win the Skill-at-Arms trophy
- It was fun! - The Fruit Machine 00:09
- It was fun!
- It was like finding a family. - The Fruit Machine 00:18
- It was like finding a family.
But it's like - at the beginning you're scared - The Fruit Machine 00:08
But it's like - at the beginning you're scared
Your first time you're leaving your house, your home. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
Your first time you're leaving your house, your home.
And people are yelling after you, telling you what to do. - The Fruit Machine 00:04
And people are yelling after you, telling you what to do.
Basic training for me was a party. - The Fruit Machine 00:08
Basic training for me was a party.
- When I joined I was 18. - The Fruit Machine 00:10
- When I joined I was 18.
And people, I mean the women that I share my platoon with, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
And people, I mean the women that I share my platoon with,
- I was just happy to be part of something big, - The Fruit Machine 00:10
- I was just happy to be part of something big,
And just loved for just doing something good. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
And just loved for just doing something good.
- When I went to Borden, there was four to a room - The Fruit Machine 00:05
- When I went to Borden, there was four to a room