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It's been a very long journey and I'm very happy
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The Fruit Machine

It's been a very long journeyand I'm very happy that we are all here today

It's been a very long journey
and I'm very happy that we are all here today

Full Transcript

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It's been a very long journey and I'm very happy
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that we are all here today.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
01:12:40
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.
To get this apology is not going to change what happened, - The Fruit Machine 00:15
To get this apology is not going to change what happened,
I think it broke the person that we were supposed to be, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
I think it broke the person that we were supposed to be,
People that just wanted to be good. - The Fruit Machine 00:04
People that just wanted to be good.
Just good. Just good. Nothing else. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
Just good. Just good. Nothing else.
And we would have helped people, all the time. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
And we would have helped people, all the time.
And I noticed by talking to the people that were discharged - The Fruit Machine 00:08
And I noticed by talking to the people that were discharged
And I mean, a lot of people, like my family that don't know - The Fruit Machine 00:12
And I mean, a lot of people, like my family that don't ...
Canada did bad things to people, you know. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
Canada did bad things to people, you know.
And they mistreated their soldiers - The Fruit Machine 00:05
And they mistreated their soldiers
- You know, we've all done things that in the end - The Fruit Machine 00:17
- You know, we've all done things that in the end
And I think that's what happened - The Fruit Machine 00:07
And I think that's what happened
The first time it ever became public - The Fruit Machine 00:05
The first time it ever became public
The first time anybody was ever interviewed about it, openly, - The Fruit Machine 00:19
The first time anybody was ever interviewed about it, openly...
And I think it's a lesson that we have to be vigilant. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
And I think it's a lesson that we have to be vigilant.
- And for sure, like anything, it's because we fight - The Fruit Machine 00:10
- And for sure, like anything, it's because we fight
- The people that are gay now should be happy in the military. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
- The people that are gay now should be happy in the militar...
I'm happy for them, because I would love to be them. - The Fruit Machine 00:26
I'm happy for them, because I would love to be them.
They knock at the door today and ask me if I would go and join, - The Fruit Machine 00:11
They knock at the door today and ask me if I would go and jo...
- The other question was, if after all of this, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- The other question was, if after all of this,
I would, absolutely. On a dime. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
I would, absolutely. On a dime.