Forrest Gump | Eastern North Carolina Now

   Ginny spends the one day with Forrest "together in our nation's capital,", and then at one point, Ginny's SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)leader boyfriend, Wesley, slaps her down hard, and Forrest instinctively pummels Wesley, the SDS wimp. You see, I have never known anyone quite like Forrest. Who has? However, I have known a few Wesleys back in the day. I always love seeing Wesley take that beating, especially when the wimp blames his hitting Ginny on President Johnson (see below). It just seems fitting.
Forrest saying goodbye to Ginny, while Wesley, the SDS wimp, looks on.
   Forrest Gump: [narration] It was the happiest moment of my life. Jenny and me were just like peas and carrots again. She showed me around and even introduced me to some of her new friends.
   Forrest Gump: [narration] It was a very special night for the two of us. I didn't want it to end.
   Forrest Gump: "Wish you wouldn't go, Jenny."
   Jenny Curran: "I have to, Forrest."
   Wesley: "Jenny? Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson and...I would never hurt you. You know that."


   Forrest Gump: "Know what I think? I think you should go home to GREENBOW, ALABAMA!"
   Jenny Curran: "Forrest, we have very different lives, you know."
   Forrest Gump: "I want you to have this."
[he places his Medal of Honor in Jenny's hand]
   Jenny Curran: "Forrest, I can't keep this."
   Forrest Gump: "I got it just by doing what you told me to do."    Jenny Curran: "Why are you so good to me?"
   Forrest Gump: "You're my girl."
   Jenny Curran: "I'll always be your girl."
[they embrace and Jenny boards onto the bus with Wesley]
   Forrest Gump: [narration] And just like that, she was gone out of my life again.

   Forrest received his Congressional Medal of Honor for saving the lives of a number of men from his platoon for physically hauling them (all wounded) from the jungle to the river bank for safe extraction by a chopper. Included in those who were saved were Bubba Blue, who was mortally wounded, and Lt. Dan, who eventually lost both of his legs.



   Forrest Gump: [narration] Then, Bubba said something I won't ever forget.
   Bubba: "I wanna go home."
   Forrest Gump: [narration] Bubba was my best good friend and that does not happen every day.

   With Bubba dead, Forrest mustered out of the military, and Jenny scattered to the four wind, Forrest return to Bubba home of Bayou La Batre to live out Bubba's dream as a shrimp boat captain. After some time of Lt. Dan adjusting to a legless life, he joins Forest there in the Mississippi Delta.

   Forrest Gump: "Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?"
   Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: "I'm here to try out my sea legs."
   Forrest Gump: "But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan."
   Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: [mildly irritated, but understanding] "Yes... yes, I know that. You wrote me a letter, you idiot!"

   At some point the embittered Lt. Dan reconciles his lot in life, and Forrest's contribution to the reclamation of his broken and battered spirit.

   Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: "I never thanked you for saving my life."