The film begins with a feather falling to the feet of Forrest Gump who is sitting at a bus stop. Forrest picks up the feather and puts it in a book (Curious George), then tells the story of his life to a woman there is sitting next to him at the bus stop. The listeners at the bus stop change regularly throughout his narration, each showing a different attitude ranging from disbelief and indifference to rapt attention.
On his first day of school, he meets a girl named Jenny, whose life is followed in parallel to Forrest's at times. Having discarded his leg braces, his ability to run at lightning speed gets him into college on a football scholarship. After his college graduation, he enlists in the army and is sent to Vietnam, where he makes fast friends with a man named Bubba, who convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Later while on patrol, Forrest's platoon is attacked. Though Forrest rescues many of the men, but Bubba got killed. Forrest is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.
While Forrest is in recovery for a bullet shot, he discovers his ability for ping-pong, eventually a gaining popularity and rising to celebrity status, and later he is playing ping-pong competitively against the Chinese teams.
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