As a Vietnam veteran and college graduate in the late sixties, of course, I could personally relate to different periods, from = ir does Forrest Gump. Review: I have seen the film easily half a dozen times, and I find that the beauty of the film is how Forrest Gump shares not only means innocence and purity of others, including the public, to make it as good of innocence and purity by keeping some very difficult times.