This video clip from Forrest Gump illustrates how war creates profound emotional bonds between soldiers, as demonstrated through the friendship between Forrest and Bubba, who shared dreams of a shrimp business partnership; the scene poignantly shows how the sudden loss of a close friend during combat leaves lasting emotional scars, highlighting the deep personal connections formed in military service and the devastating impact of war on those bonds.
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It wasn't always fun. Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock or a trail or the road. So, he'd tell us to get down. Shut up.
>> Get down. Shut up.
>> So, we did.
Now, I don't know much about anything, but I think some of America's best young men served in this war. There was Dallas from Phoenix.
Cleveland, he was from Detroit.
>> Hey, Texas.
Hey, text man. What the hell's going on?
>> And text with Well, I don't remember where text come from.
>> Nothing.
>> How you Forest?
>> Hey, Bubba.
>> I'm going to lean up against you. You just lean right back against me. This way we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud.
You know why we a good partnership for us?
Cuz we be watching out for one another like brothers and stuff.
Hey folks, something I've been thinking about. I got a very important question to ask you.
How would you like to go into the shrimping business with me?
>> Okay, man. I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. So many pound of shrimp pay off the boat. So many pound for gas. We can just live right on the boat. We ain't got to pay no rent. I'll be the captain. We can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm telling you, 50/50.
And hey, folks, all the shrimp you can eat.
>> That's a fine idea.
Bubba did have a fine idea.
>> Incoming.
Get the [ย __ย ] up here. Godamn it.
OVER.
Be advised, we have to THE TREE LINE AT POINT BACK.
COME BACK.
BOY, RUN.
RUN. Godamn it. Run.
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.
>> Bubba was my best good friend. I had to make sure that he was okay.
>> Where the hell are you, >> Bubba?
And on my way back to find Bubba, well, that was this boy laying on the ground.
Okay, >> I couldn't just let him lay there all along and 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, Forest. Help me."
You'll be okay.
>> I started to get scared that I might never find >> strong arm. I know my position is danger close. We got Charlie all OVER THIS AREA. I GOT TO HAVE those fast MOVERS IN HERE NOW. OVER.
>> LIEUTENANT D IS DEAD.
>> I KNOW HE'S SAD. MY WHOLE GODDAMN PLATOON IS WIPED OUT.
>> What are you doing?
>> Leave me here. Get away. Just leave me here. Get out.
>> God, I said leave me here. Godamn it.
Leg strong. Be advised your fast movers are inbound at this time.
>> Ben, it felt like something just jumped up and bit me.
>> You think son of a [ย __ย ] I CAN'T LEAVE the I told you to leave me there, G. Forget about me. GET YOURSELF OUT. DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID?
God damn it. Put me down. Get your ass out of here.
I didn't ask you to pull me out of there. Godamn you. Where the hell you think you're going?
>> I got an AIR STRIKE INBOUND RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE GOING TO NAPE THE WHOLE AREA.
>> DON'T YOU STAY HERE. GODAMN IT. THAT'S AN ARMOR.
>> I GOT A FIGHT ABOVE.
OKAY, FOREST.
OKAY.
NO, we all >> I'm okay.
on the ground.
He Get it out there.
>> If I'd have known this was going to be the last time me and Bubba was going to talk, I'd have thought of something better to say.
>> Hey, Bubba.
Hey, Forest.
Forest.
What? This helper got shot.
Then Bubba said something I won't ever forget.
>> I want to go home.
>> Bubba was my best good friend.
Even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.
Bob was going to be a shrimp and buck captain, but his daddy died right there by that river that we're at now.
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