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'Hello. My name's Forrest Gump. You want a chocolate? I could eat
about a million and a half of these. My momma always said,
'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what
you're gonna get.' …
Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a
person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.
I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real
hard I could remember my first pair of shoes. Momma said they'd
take my anywhere. When I was a baby, Momma named me after the great
Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest... She said we was
related to him in some way. And, what he did was, he started up
this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in
their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of
ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bed sheets on their
horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my
name. Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to
remind me t
hat sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no
sense. Momma always had a way of explaining things so I
could understand them. We lived about a quarter mile of
Route 17, about a half mile from the town of Greenbow,
Alabama. That's in the county of Greenbow. Our house had
been in Momma's family since her grandpa's grandpa's
grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago.
Something like that... Since it was just me and Momma and we had
all these empty rooms, Momma decided to let those
rooms out. Mostly to people passing through. Like from, oh, Mobile,
Montgomery, place like that. That's how me and Mommy got
money. Mommy was a real smart lady. She wanted me to have
the finest education, so she took me to the Greenbow County
Central School. I met the principal and all...
Our house was never empty. There was always folks comin' and goin'.
Sometimes we had so many people stayin' with us that every room was
filled with travelers. You know, folks livin' out of their
suitcases, and hat cases, and sample cases. One
time a young man was staying with us, and he had him a guitar case.
I liked that guitar. It sounded good. I started moving around to
the music, swinging my hips. This one night we and Momma... was out
shoppin', and we walked right by Benson's Furniture and Appliance
store, and guess what, some years later, that handsome young man
who they called 'The King,' well, he sung too many songs, had
himself a heart attack or something. Must be hard being a king. You
know, it's funny how you remember some things, but some
things you can't. I remember the bus ride on the first day of
school very well…
You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't
remember being born. I don't recall what I got for my first
Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first out door
picnic. But, I do remember the first time I heard the sweetiest
voice... in the wide world. “You can sit here if you want.” I had
never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.
I just sat next to her on that bus and had conversation all the way
to school. And next to Momma, no one ever talked to me or asked me
questions. From that day on, we was always together. Jenny and me
was like peas and carrots. She taught me how to climb... I showed
her how to dangle. She helped me to learn how to read. And I showed
her to swing. Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars.
For some reason, Jenny didn't never want to go home. She
was my most special friend. My only friend. My Momma always
told me that miracles happen every day. Some people don't think so,
but they do.You wouldn't believe it if I told you. But I can run
like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I
was running!
Now remember how I told you that Jenny never seemed to want to go
home? Well, she lived in a house that was as old as Alabama. Her
Momma had gone up to heaven when she was five and her daddy
was some kind of a farmer. He was a very loving' man. He
was always kissing and touching' her and her sisters. And
then this one time, Jenny wasn't on the bus to go to
school. Momma always said that God is mysterious.
He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day.
Instead ... he had the police say Jenny didn't have to stay in that
house no more. She went to live with her grandma just over on
Creekmore Avenue, which made me happy 'cause she was so close.
Some nights, Jenny'd sneak out and come over to my
house, just 'cause she said she was scared. Scared of what,
I don't know...but I think it was her grandma's dog. He was
a mean dog. Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends...all the way to
high school. Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I was
goin'. I never thought it would take me anywhere. And can
you believe it? I got to go to college, too.
Maybe it was just me but college was very confusing times. College
ran by real fast 'cause I played so much football. They
even put me on a thing called the All-America Team where
you get to meet the President of the United States.
President Kennedy met with the Collegiate All-American
Football Team at the Oval Office today. The real good thing about
meeting the President of the United States is the food.
They put you in this little room with just about anything
you'd want to eat or drink. And since number one, I wasn't
hungry, but thirsty... and number two, they was free, I musta drank
me about fifteen Dr. Peppers. Sometime later, for no
particular reason, somebody shot that nice young President when he
was riding' in his car. And a few years after that...
somebody shot his little brother, too, only he was in a hotel
kitchen. It must be hard being brothers. I wouldn't know.
Now can you believe it? After only five years of playing football,
I got a college degree. Congratulations, son! Have you given any
thought to your Recruiter future? Thought?
Hello, I'm Forrest... Forrest Gump. Nobody gives a bunk of shit who
you are, fuzzball! You're not even a low-life scum sucking
maggot! Get your faggoty ass on the bus. You're in the Army
now! “
At first, it seemed like I made a mistake. ... seeing how it was my
induction day and I was already gettin' yelled at. I didn't
know who I might meet or what they might ask.
“People call me Bubba... My name's Forrest Gump. People call me
Forrest Gump.” So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama,
and his momma cooked shrimp. And her momma before her
cooked shrimp. And her momma before her momma cooked shrimp, too.
Bubba's family knew everything... there was to know about the
shrimpin' business.
For some reason, I fit in the Army like one of them round
pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat and
remember to stand up straight.' Private Gump!. You are gonna be a
General some day, Gump!'
Nighttime in the Army is a lovely time. We'd lay there in our
bunks, and I'd miss my momma. And I'd miss Jenny. Turns
out, Jenny had gotten into some trouble over... some photos
of her in her college sweater. And she was thrown out of
school. But that wasn't a bad thing. Because a man
who owns a theater in Memphis, Tennessee, saw those photo and
offered Jenny a job singing in a show. The first chance I got, I
took the bus up to Memphis to see her perform in that show.
Her dream had come true. She was a folk singer.
And just like that...
'They told us that Vietnam was gonna be very different from
the United Sates of America. Except for all the beer cans
and the barbecue, it was. You know, after we win
this war, and we take over everything we can get American
shrimpers to come on here and shrimp these waters. We'll
just shrimp all the time, man. So much shrimp, why, you wouldn't
believe it.”
I felt real lucky Lt. Dan was my lieutenant. He was from a long,
great military tradition. Somebody in his family had fought and
died in every single American war. A distant relative of Lt. Dan's,
wearing a revolutionary war uniform, falls dead in the
snow. Another relative, wearing a civil war uniform and
bearing a striking resemblance to Lt. Dan, falls down dead.
Another relative, wearing a World War II, falls down dead
on the beach at Normandy. I guess you could say he had a
lot to live up to. I got to see a lot of
countryside. We would take these real long walks.
It wasn't always fun. Lt. Dan always gettin' these funny
feelings about a rock or a trail, or the road, so he'd tell
u to get down, shut up! So we did. I don't know much about
anything, but I think some of American's best young men served in
this war. There was Dallas, from Phoenix. Cleveland, he was
Detroit. And Tex was, well, I don't remember where Tex come from.
The good thing about Vietnam is there was always someplace to go.
And there was always something to do. One day it started raining,
and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every
kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol'
fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes
rain even seemed to come staright up from underneath.
Shoot, it even rained at night. I even wrote Jenny and told her all
about it. I sent her letters. Not every day, but almost. I told her
what I was doin' and asked her what she was doing, and I
told her how I thought about her always. And how I was
looking forward to getting a letter from her just as soon as she
had the time I'd always let her know that I was okay. Then I'd sign
each letter, 'Love, Forrest Gump.' This one day, we
was out walking, like always, and then, just like that, somebody
turned off the rain and the sun come out. I ran and
ran, just like Jenny told me to. I ran so far and so fast
that pretty soon I was all by myself, which was a bad thing. Bubba
was my best good friend. I had to make sure he was okay. And on my
way back to find Bubba, well, there was this boy laying on
the ground. I couldn't just let him lay there all alone, scared the
way he was, so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. And every
time I went back looking for Bubba, somebody else was saying, 'Help
me, Forrest. Help me.' I started to get scared that I might
never find Bubba. I gotta find Bubba! “ I'm okay, Forrest.
I'm all right…” If I'd a known this was gonna be the last
time me and Bubba was gonna talk, I'd a thought of something better
to say. Then Bubba said something I won't even
forget. ‘I wanna go home.’ Bubba was my best good friend. And even
I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.
Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he died
right there by that river in Vietnam. That's all I have to say
about that.
It was a bullet that jumped up and bit me directly
in the buttocks. They said it was a million-dollar wound, but the
Army must keep that money, 'cause I still ain't seen a
nickel of that million dollars. The only good thing about being
wounded in the buttocks...is the ice cream. They gave me
all the ice cream I could eat.
For some reason, ping pong came very natural to me. So I
started playing it all the time. I played ping-pong even when I
didn't have anyone to play ping-pong with. The hospital's people
said it made me look like a duck in water, whatever that
means. Even Lieutenant Dan would come and watch me play.
I played ping-pong so much, I even played it in my sleep.
Two weeks later, I left Vietnam. After that, Momma went to the
hotel to lay down, so I went out for a walk to see our
national capital. It's a good thing Momma was resting, 'cause the
street was awful crowded with people looking at all the
statues and monuments. And some of them people were loud and pushy.
Everywhere I went, I had to stand in line. There was this
man, giving a little talk. And for some reason, he was wearing an
American flag for a shirt... and he liked to say
the 'F' word. A lot. 'F' this and 'F' that. And every
time... he said 'F' word, people, for some reason, well,
they'd cheer. That's it.
Jenny…It was the happiest moment of my life. Jenny and me were just
peas and carrots again. She showed me around, and even introduced
me... to some of her new friends. We waled around all
night, Jenny and me, just talkin'. She told me about all the
travellin' she's done. And how she'd discovered ways to expand her
mind and learn how to live in harmony... which must be out west
somewhere, 'cause she made it all the way to California. I
was a very special night for the two of us. I didn't want it to
end. And just like that, she was gone out of my life again. I
thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead,
they decided the best way for me to fight communists was to play
ping-pong. So I was in the Special Services,
traveling around the country cheering up all them
wounded veterans and showing them how to play... the Army decided I
should be on the All-American Ping-Pong Team. We were the first
Americans to visit the land of China in like a million years or
something like that, and somebody said that world peace was
in our hands. But all I did was play ping-pong. When I got
home... I was national celebrity.
Lieutenant Dan was living in a hotel. And because he didn't have no
legs, he spent most of his time exercising his arms. I stayed with
Lieutenant Dan and celebrated the holidays.
“I gotta buy me one of them shrimpin' boats as soon as I have some
money. I make me a promise to Bubba in Vietnam, that as soon as the
war was over, we'd go in partners. He'd be the captain of the
shrimpin' boat and I'd be his first mate. But now that he's dead,
that means that I gotta be the captain. A shrimp boat captain.”
A few months later they invited me and the ping-pong team
to visit the White House. So I went again. And I met the President
of the United States again...
My service in the United States Army was over. So I went
home. When I got home, I had no idea that Momma had had all
sorts of visitors. That Momma, she sure was right. It's
funny how things work out. I didn't stay home for long, because I'd
made a promise to Bubba. And I always try to keep my promise. So I
went on down to Bayou La Batre to meet Bubba's family and make
their introduction. And of course, I paid my respect to Bubba
himself.' Hey, Bubba, it's me, Forrest Gump. I remember everything
you said, and I got it all figured out. I'm taking
the twenty-four thousand, five hundred and six-two dollars and
forty-seven cents that I got... well, that's left after a new hair
cut and a new suit and I took Momma out to real fancy dinner and I
bought a bus ticket and three Doctor Peppers. So,
I'm putting all that on gas, ropes and new nets and a
brand-new shrimpin' boat...
Bubba had told me everything he knows about shrimpin', but
you know what I found out? Shrimpin' is tough. I'd never
named a boat before, but there was only one I could think
of. Jenny… The most beautiful name in the wide world.
hadn't heard from Jenny in a long while. But... I
thought about her a lot. And I hoped that whatever she was
doing made her happy. I thought about Jenny all the
time.
So I went to church every Sunday... Sometimes Lieutenant Dan came,
too. Though I think he left the praying up to me.
It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right then, God
showed up. Now me, I was scared. But Lieutenant Dan, he was
mad. After that, shrimpin' was easy. And since people still needed
them shrimps for shrimp cocktails and barbecues and all...
and we were the only boat left standing 'Bubba-Gump' shrimp's what
they got. We got a whole bunch of boats. Twelve Jenny's, a
big ol' warehouse, we even have hats that says
'Bubba-Gump' on 'em. 'Bubba-Gump Shrimp.' It's a household name.
“ What's the matter, Momma?”
“I'm dyin', Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.”
“ Why are you dyin', Momma?”
“ It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be
afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It's
something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I
was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.”
“You did good, Momma.”
“ Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You
have to do the best with what God gave you.”
“ What's my destiny, Momma?”
“ You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is
a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're
gonna get.”
Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand
them. She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a
new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say
about that.
Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a
national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college
graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get
together and offered me a fine job. So, I never went back
to work for Lieutenant Dan. Though he did take care of my
Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company.
And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to
worry about money no more. And I said, 'That's good. One
less thing.' Now, Momma said there's only so much fortune a man
really needs... and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a
whole bunch of it to the Four Square Gospel Church. And I gave a
whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though
Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts. I gave Bubba's
mommy Bubba's share. And you know what... She didn't have to work
in nobody's kitchen no more. And 'cause I was godzillionaire and I
liked doing it so much. I cut that grass for free.
But at nighttime, when there was nothing to do and the house was
all empty, I'd always think of Jenny. And then, she was there.
Jenny came back and stayed with me. Maybe it was because she had
nowhere else to go. Or maybe it was because she was so
tired, because she went to bed and slept and slept like she
hadn't slept in years. It was wonderful having her home. Every day
we'd take a walk, and I'd jabber on like a monkey in a
tree. And she'd listen about ping-pong and shrimpin' boat
and Momma makin' a trip to heaven. I did all the talkin'. Jenny
most of the time was real quiet. I never really knew why she came
back, but I didn't care. It was like olden times. We was like peas
and carrots again. Every day I'd pick pretty flowers and
put them in her room for her. And she gave me the best gift
anyone could ever get in the wide world. New shoes. They
make them just for running.And she even showed me how to dance.
And, well, we was like family... Jenny and me. And it was
the happiest time of my life.
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a
little run. So I ran to the end of the road, and when I got there,
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got
there... I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I
figured since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the
great... state of Alabama. And that's what I did I
ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason,
I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And
when I got there, I figured since I'd gone this far, I might as
well turn around, just keep on going. When
I got to another ocean, I figured since I've gone this far, I might
as well just turn back, keep right on going.
When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate.
I'd think a lot about Momma and Bubba, and
Lieutenant Dan, but most of all, I thought about Jenny. I
thought about her a lot. Now, for some reason what I was
doing seemed to make sense to people.” I mean, it was like
an alarm went off in my head, you know. I said,
here's a guy that's got his act together. Here's somebody who's got
it, all figured out. Here's somebody who has the answer.
I'll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump.”
So, I got company. And after that I got more company. And
then...even more people joined in. Somebody later told me...
it gave people hope. Now... Now, I don't know anything
about that, but... Some of those people asked me if I could
help them out. And some years later I heard that fella did
come up with a bumper sticker slogan... and he make a lot of money
off of it. Another time I was running along, somebody who had lost
all his money in the T-shirt business, and he wanted to put my face
on a T-shirt, but he couldn't draw that well and he didn't have a
camera. And some years later I found out that that man did come up
with a idea for a T-shirt and he made a lot of money off of it.
Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. My Momma always
said you got to put the past behind you before you
can move on. And I think that's what my running was all about. I
had run for three years, two months, fourteen days, and
sixteen hours. And just like that, my running days was
over. So, I went home to Alabama.
One day, out of the blue clear sky, I got a letter from
Jenny...wondering if I could come down to Savannah to see her, and
that's what I'm doing here. She saw me on TV, running, I'm supposed
to go on the Number Nine bus to Richmond Street and
get off and go one block left to 1-9-4-7 Henry Street, Apartment
4…
“Hey, I kept, I kept a scrapbook of your, of your clippings and
everything. There you are. This, I got your running. Listen,
Forrest. I don't know how to say this. Um,I just... I want to
apologize for anything that I ever did to you, 'cause I was messed
up for a long time, and...
“Hello, Mr. Gump.”
“Hello.”
“His name is Forrest.”
“Like me.”
“I named him after his Daddy.”
“He got a daddy named Forrest, too?”
“You're his daddy, Forrest,” and “ I'm sick.I have some kind virus.
And the doctors don't, they don't know what it is. And
there isn't anything they can do about it.”
“I'll take care of you if you're sick.
“Would you marry me, Forrest?”
“Okay”
Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come
out. And then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to
bed down on the bayou...there was over a million sparkles on the
water. Like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny. It
looks like there were two skies, one on top of the other.
And then in the desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't
tell where heavens stopped and the earth began. It was so
beautiful… You died on a Saturday morning…And I had you placed here
under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to
the ground. Momma... always said dyin' was a part of life.
Little Forrest...About to start school again soon. I make his
breakfast, lunch, and dinner... every day. I make sure he
combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to
play ping-pong. Okay... He's really good. We fish a lot. And every
night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of
him. I am. He wrote a latter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not
supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't
know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know
if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around
accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe
both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If
there'sanything you need, I won't be far away…”
