Forrest Gump is a man who is not very smart. When he went to school he was noticed to be a slow learner and was sent to a special school, where he spent most of his school years. As a young man, he was spotted by a high school football coach and went to high school so that he could play football. He then went on to Harvard University to play football for the University. He also made friends at Harvard and learned to play the harmonica from a friend called Bubba. Forrest Gump was then drafted to fight in the war in Vietnam, where he performed bravely and was given an honorable medal by the President of U.S.A himself. Recuperating from a bullet shot in the backside, he made another good friend Dan and learned to play ping pong. Forrest became so good at ping pong that he was invited to Beijing to play with the Chinese. Back in the U.S.A, Forrest played his harmonica in a band with his high-school sweetheart Jenny. Jenny and Forrest went to an anti-war demonstration where Forrest threw his medal away and managed to hit a civil servant with it. He got arrested and was forced to go into space they then crash-landed in Papua New Guinea,Forrest learned to play chess from the chief of the tribe. Forrest then met up with Dan and Jenny and earned a living as a professional wrestler, with the stage name of "The Dunce". Disheartened, he quit wrestling and went in search of Jenny. He then went to another town and learned to play the keyboard and drums in addition to his harmonica and became a famous one-man band playing in the streets. Finally he met Jenny and Jenny presented him with his son Forrest junior.