Yesterday marked 8 years since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray. In this video clip from the BBC, two of those detainees and one of the men who guarded them describe their memories of that day.On January 27, according to the Washington Post's timeline, Vice President Cheney assured the public that these inmates were "the worst of a very bad lot. They are very dangerous. They are devoted to killing millions of Americans." We now know that was untrue (though Cheney and others continue to pretend otherwise). The two men who describe their experience in the clip above were never charged with anything, and were released after two and a half years. They returned home to England to restart their lives, without an apology from the U.S. They did get an apology from one of their guards at Guantanamo: Brandon Neely, who is now a police officer in Texas, used Facebook to contact them and apologize for his role in their mistreatment. The three men met in Britain for a BBC documentary, and this clip offers a glimpse of their reunion. I heard a longer report this morning on NPR's BBC World News broadcast. (I can't find the audio online, but this writeup is similar to what I heard.) I found it moving, especially at the end, when -- separately -- Neely and the former detainees expressed the hope that they had found "a new friend."The December 28 issue of The Weekly Standard had a cover story on "The Real Gitmo," aimed at exposing "the disconnect between life at Guantanamo as it is today, and the Guantanamo of popular mythology." I can't recommend it. But if you'd like to know more about that "mythology" -- that is, the facts about who was detained at Gitmo starting in 2002 and on what grounds; facts that, from my perspective, don't seem all that popularly known at all -- McClatchy has a wealth of information on the Web site for its project Guantanamo: Beyond the Law. Jason Linkins called attention to it yesterday on his Huffington Post "Eat the Press" blog, and summarized some of its findings. You can see why they wouldn't be popular.