6/22/2023 0 Comments Forrest gump groom![]() ![]() ![]() “Gump-Boiler-Stew!” he scream, an come after me with the cleaver. ![]() “What happen?” He look at the two of us, an then holler, “Sergeant Kranz, is that you?” “Gump-Boiler-Stew!” the sergeant say, an then he kind of git holt of hissef an grapped a meat cleaver off the wall. Suddenly the company commander come runnin into the buildin. Jus lef em settin at they tables, covered with stew, actin kinda shell-shocked or somethin-but it sure did shut their asses up about when they food is gonna be ready. Incredibly, it didn’t do nothin to all them guys settin out there in the mess hall neither. An it blowed stew all over us, so’s we looked like-well, I don’t know what we looked like-but man, it was strange. “clothes off, cept for the big chef’s hat I was wearin at the time. Sergeant an me, we is miraculously spared somehow, like they say will happen when you are so close to a han grenade that you aren’t hurt by” It blowed the dishwasher guy right thru a wall, an the guy what was stackin plates jus took off up in the air, sort of like Rocket Man. I do remember that it blowed the roof off the mess hall an blowed all the winders out an the doors too. ![]() “Is you cookin somethin in that boiler!” “That is the supper,” I says, an the sergeant got this real amazed look on his face, an a secont later, he got a real frightened look, like you might get jus before an automobile wreck, an then the boiler blew up. Steam begun to come out of the sides an one of the legs on the boiler tore loose from the floor. “Where is these men’s food?” “It is almost ready, Sergeant,” I say, an jus about then, the boiler commenced to rumble an shake. I’m settin there watchin it, so nervous I didn’t know what to do, when all of a sudden the first sergeant come bustin thru the door. “After a haf hour or so, they was beatin on the tables with they knives an forks like in a prison riot, an I knowed I had to do somethin fast, so I turned the boiler up high as it could go. You are a good fellow, forrest, and you have a big heart. Take the tide, my friend, and as you are carried along, make it work for you, fight the shallows and the snags and never give up. Perhaps by the measure of tests or the judgement of fools, you might fall into some category or other, but deep down, Forrest, I have seen that glowing sparkle of curiosity burning deep in your mind. The crucial question is, what will you do? I don't think you're an idiot at all. This war is to for you, old pal - nor me - and I am well out of it as I'm sure you will be in time. When I think back on it now, there is something in your eyes, some tiny flash of fire that comes now and then, mostly when you smile, and, on those infrequent occasions, I believe what I saw was almost a Genesis of our ability as humans to think, to create, to be. I sense, Forrest, that you are on the verge of something very significant in your life, some change, or event that will move you in a different direction, and you must seize the moment, and not let it pass. The doctors made their decision quickly, and before I knew it, I was being taken away, but I asked if I could stop long enough to write you this note, because you have been so kind to me whileI was here. I am sorry there was no time for us to speech other before I left. ![]()
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