THIS DAY IN HISTORY – FORREST GUMP OPENS – 1994

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14 Facts You May Not Have Known About 'Forrest Gump'

Tom Hanks Paid for the Running Scene to Be in 'Forrest Gump' Himself

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Forest Rides Again

Guest Post by Unreconstructed

Some of you TBP’s may remember my remember my article last year, Forest Gump and His Harley/5 Days in May.  I began writing this sequel (actually a prequel) earlier this year but never finished as I didn’t think it worthy to post.  BUT!!  Some of you readers may be in the same situation as I find myself so I thought I’d give it a try.

My situation is MAXED OUT, saturated.  No; SUPER SATURATED!!!  I’ve had Covid, BLM, New Normal, Fauci, Gates, WHO, CDC, Riots, Antifa, Big Pharma, mask, and all the rest till I can’t take it anymore.  Stop this train and let my brother Jack off!

So if you are like me maybe this Forest adventure may give you some respite.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – “Forrest Gump” opens, wins Tom Hanks a second Oscar – 1994

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On July 6, 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opens in U.S. theaters. A huge box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the second half of the 20th century.

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On Fishing, Friends, and Hidden Treasures Found

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

 

Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel. Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how cruel the world may be, life becomes less hard when you got a good friend.

– Unknown

 

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

– Unknown

 

In the late nineteen-forties, three young men graduated college, packed their gear into a Willy’s four-by-four and took a road trip into the Canadian wilderness where they built a log-cabin. They felled trees by hand and used nineteenth-century tools to construct the cabin of such quality, it was shared by multiple generations of their three families over the next five decades.

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