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Forrest Gump:
[Narrating]
I thought I was going back to Vietnam but instead they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play ping pong, so I was in the Special Services, traveling around the country cheering up all the wounded veterans, showing them how to play ping pong. I was so good that some years later 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 a million years or something like that. Somebody said world peace was in our hands
[Narrating]
I thought I was going back to Vietnam but instead they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play ping pong, so I was in the Special Services, traveling around the country cheering up all the wounded veterans, showing them how to play ping pong. I was so good that some years later 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 a million years or something like that. Somebody said world peace was in our hands
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FORREST I thought I was going back to Vietnam
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but instead they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists
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was to play Ping Pong
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So I was in the Special Services
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traveling around the country cheering up all them wounded veterans
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and showing them how to play Ping Pong
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I was so good that some years later
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the Army decided that I should be on the All American Ping Pong team
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We were the first Americans to visit the land of China
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in like a million years or something like that
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Somebody said world peace was in our hands
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Movie Summary
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth
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Forrest Gump
