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The son of a Mexican immigrant from Zacatecas who came to this country without papers, Torres never had a full-time journalism job until this year, living a “Forrest Gump kind of life.”

“We follow a wonderfully outspoken, profane, absolutely ordinary, but very eloquent guy who fights the war as a very young man, named John Greenwood,” says Ward, describing him as something of a Revolutionary War Forrest Gump, though more intelligent.

Memory has reduced “Forrest Gump” to a few lines of dialogue and the ubiquitous meme of Tom Hanks “running like the wind” blows down the country road outside his home in Greenbow, Ala.

‘Forrest Gump’ 1994 directed by Robert Zemeckis.

“Forrest Gump,” meanwhile, is entirely devoted to making white Americans feel comfortable — about themselves, and about what they represent to the world.