Nice story. I love that movie. It always, always makes me cry.
“No doubt that being a soldier is something that you have to do. You have to force it,” Humphreys said. “No human is designed to do certain things. You have to make yourself be that person, it’s an engineered effect. The same thing as acting.”
As retired Army, I can say that there’s a lot of truth to that statement. But, we ALL “act” in our different roles in life. You don’t act like a “Mom” with your employees at work and I TRY not to bark orders at home.
(The latter doesn’t always work for me, LOL!)
While I did enjoy Forrst Gump, I didn’t enjoy it without realizing that the left was more than happy to play around with the idea that our troops didn’t have to be fully functioning, to be members of the military.
That’s their view of the military more often than not. So it was with a bit of skepticism that I enjoyed Gump, and realized what the left was up to at least in part.