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Forest meets elvis and shares musical interest when he is staying at his house. Forest dances to his music in a funny way, moving his hips because of his leg braces. Forest sees elvis doing his dance on tv for thousands of people
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Two african american students enrolled in the university of alabama, causing a huge uproar. While it was extremely controversial and frowned upon, the university was desegregated allowing colored people to enroll.
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JFK was the president of the U.S. doing a reelection campaign in dallas when he was asassinated in his car in front of thousands of people. A man at a nearby hotel was found guilty and then asassinated himself.
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forest enters into the vietnam war with excitement to fight for his country. He ends up being a great soldier
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Forrests base and group is attacked and he takes action and saves people. He saves his sargeant and he is very bitter and mad at forest for doing it because it left him with no legs, and he would've liked to just die at that point
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When forest is in recovery at the hospital he finds out he is very good at pong. He plays alone by himself for a while before he destroys everyone he plays
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Forest is granted the medal of honor for being an honorable and respected soldier throughout the war in vietnam. He gets to meet president johnson, and showed his bullet wound on his buttcheek to him on live tv.
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Neil armstrong lands on the moon onto the module eagle and becomes the first man on the moon.
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President nixon bugs a hotel to listen to some men hes suspicious of. Forest over hears this being discussed and he tells without realizing how serious that was. Nixon was inpeached.
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Forest felt very lonely and lost. He was probably suffering some from the war ptsd, and he wanted to get away. He started running across the country
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The first known outbreak of aids goes public. it was a big deal and something that was taken very seriously
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Jenny dies after marrying forest. While it isn't said directly, its heavily implied that she passed away from aids.
