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Crazy Eights - CBC Documentary

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Not sure if anyone aware. Thursday March 29, 2007 at 8pm on CBC-TV

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/crazyeights.html

Video clip - http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/video_player.html?crazyeights_promo

Cheers FDL :cdn:
 
I was fortunate enough to watch an advance copy with RHFC_Piper the other day, and have posted a review here: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/crazy-eights.html
 
Babbling Brooks said:
.... and have posted a review here: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/crazy-eights.html

Good comentary. I look forward to seeing the film
 
Babbling Brooks said:
I was fortunate enough to watch an advance copy with RHFC_Piper the other day, and have posted a review here: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/crazy-eights.html

Thanks again for bringing that down to Cambridge.   It really meant a lot to see the boys in action again.

Great documentary.  Great Review.

Cheers, Brooks. :cheers:

Thanks.  :salute:
 
Great review Brooks. That clown Barrett Hooper makes my blood boil.
 
I got it on reminder now. I am looking forward to seeing this.

Regards,
TN2IC
 
Per Admins instructions searched the boards & didn't find the topic.

CBC Special - CRAZY 8's - Stories of Canadian Soldiers in Afghanastan. Thursday March 29, 2007 @ 2100 hours EDT.

 
+1 for effort.

Was already posted here http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/59273.0.html
 
Thank you for the " correction", Sir.

I'm just a newbie here but am currently a very serious IT type and my search string was identical (Re: Attention: CBC Special - CRAZY 8's - Stories of Canadian Soldiers in Afgha" except I was able to put the "nstan" at the end of the string) to my post title and it came up with no hits.

This is not meant to be critical to the  Admin Staff but there might be some things lacking on the board. I'd be more than happy to volunteer my time to help this awesome venue that depicts and profiles our soldiers in such an upfront, open and realistic manner.

Apologies for wasting your time.
 
Don't call me Sir, I work for a living  ;D

Acutally I just used your date-time group to find the other thread.

From one sapper to another,

CHIMO!

:cheers:
 
Definitely going to be watching that, especially since the RCR is my destined regiment.


edit- You beat me to it Hitormiss
 
Bobby Rico said:
Definitely going to be watching that, especially since the 1RCR is my destined regiment.

Just to help you out the last part should read... "especially since 1 RCR is a Battalion in my destined Regiment" there is not such thing as the 1RCR there is just The RCR and it's sub Battalions.

And yes it does look like it is worth watching, I just haven't decided if I will watch it or not. My PVR is set though so maybe.
 
I just hope they put the documentary on the web (no TV  :'( ).

And for something a little different but related to the 'crazy 8s':

(It's probably been posted on army.ca before, but If you haven't seen Coach's Corner from this past Remembrance Day it is particularly touching as it features some photos from the Crazy 8s and Red Devils.  Enjoy :salute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQM2cQDSlU
 
i remember watching that hockey night in canada episode on tv, struck a chord and shed a few
 
Globe & Mail Thursday March 29 2007

http://tinyurl.com/2mpe9s

Crazy Eights is your must-see TV tonight

By ANDREW RYAN 

Thursday, March 29, 2007 – Page R3


Spend any amount of time at an airport and you'll see some of our Canadian soldiers. As in battle, they wear fatigues and travel in packs, invariably hauling enormous duffle bags on their way somewhere. They always look absurdly young.

And if you read the news, you have to wonder if they're en route to or from Afghanistan, where our troops remain embedded in some manner of war. It's not pleasant to envision those young faces going into battle, but the fight against the Taliban rages on daily and we're in the middle of it. Those are young Canadian men and women over there, and some don't come back.

Crazy Eights (CBC, 8 p.m.) is tonight's assignment for real Canadians. You can miss Ugly Betty or Survivor this one time, or tape them for later. It's required viewing for those invested in our country's war effort in Afghanistan, which means everyone, let's hope.

Crazy Eights comes courtesy of filmmaker Gordon Henderson, who spent most of last October with the Royal Canadian Regiment Charles Company Eight Platoon, more popularly known as the Crazy Eights. The famed military unit has suffered more casualties than any other Canadian squadron since we went into Afghanistan. These are the front-line Canucks.

The film provides a stark video postcard from a handful of those young Canadians we've sent off to the dusty trenches. Here again, they all look so very young.

The Crazy Eights aren't crazy, of course; in fact, they're like any other nice Canadian kids in their late teens and early 20s. Most seem chipper and pragmatic regarding the continuing conflict in Afghanistan. And to a person, the Crazy Eights appear unfazed by the tragedy that befell the unit a month before the film was made: Labour Day weekend last year, the Eights played a key role in Operation Medusa -- the most intense battle for Canadian troops since the Korean War. The morning after, the Eights were mistakenly strafed by an American warplane. It's called "friendly fire" in war parlance, and this time it resulted in one dead Canadian soldier, and 30 injured. Several of the Crazy Eights display still-healing shrapnel wounds.

And the war in Afghanistan wears on. The film includes heated battle scenes involving tracer fire directed at the Eights, who reply with appropriate force. Night-vision cameras follow the unit on vehicle patrol. The soldiers remain remarkably calm considering they're travelling roads known to be rife with land mines.

It's a concise and stylish profile of the elite fighting unit, which comes off as professional and impressive at all times. Not one Crazy Eight gripes about the harsh conditions, or questions the tour of duty or the broader battle mission.

Some admit they miss watching hockey, however. We are Canadian.


 
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