I watched Forrest Gump the other night for the first time in about twenty years, and I noticed a scene that seemed a bit out of place.
After Forrest received his Medal of Honor from President Johnson, he wandered around Washington and wound up at the Lincoln Memorial where a war protest was in full swing. The protesters thinking Forrest was one of a group of Vietnam vets who came to speak out against the war, put him up in front of the microphones to speak to the crowd. About that time an older veteran rips the wires out from the amplifier jacks so you never hear what Forrest has to say. But the thing that struck me as odd was a banner in the background that said "Support our GIs. Bring them home now!"
"Support our GIs" was definitely not the theme of war protesters in those days, since GIs were considered baby killers. I suspect the original banner said something else, and was revised to send a message about Iraq and to rehabilitate the image of the Vietnam protest movement, but I suppose I need to watch another version of the movie to confirm it. Can anybody shed some light on this?
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