Heritage Minute filmed in Wainwright honours fallen Canadian soldier

For his role in saving dozens of lives during an ambush, Captain John Snyder was awarded the Star of Military Valor. What they see in the Heritage Minute is the moment where John has to command not only his soldiers but the Afghan guys to fire back and fight back against the Taliban because they were surrounded on three sides. The man needs to fire back. Who does he want? Let's go! Everybody from, you know, the soldiers that were with us firing weapons to the explosions we had going off, none of this was CG, but also, you know, engineers that dug that for us in this place they called the sandbox and moved the little hut into place and built this out of nothing for us to film it. One of the things about CFB, Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where we shot is that it is so true to conditions in Afghanistan that at the time that international forces were going overseas. The British and other people sent their troops over to Wainwright because it almost perfectly replicates how things were. I don't know where we are, John. Let's go. Yeah, you do, brother. You're in Afghanistan. And that was part of why this minute was chosen, I think, was to remind people of the kind of service these people are in and that it is not way back with the World War I and World War II. It's ongoing. Of the 40,000 Canadians who served in Afghanistan, 158 did not come home, including... And so to reflect that with Afghanistan and specifically to have done that in Wainwright I think should serve as a reminder of that service.