Run, Forrest, Run

So, I was flipping through the channels last night and landed on a movie that is in my Top Ten best movies of all time list - Forrest Gump.

Interesting scene in the middle. Forrest has served in Vietnam and is in Washington D.C. to receive a Medal of Honor from the President. As he's walking through Washington, he accidentally gets caught up in a line going to a war protest on the mall.

Before he knows it, he's mistaken for a member of a group of veterans protesting the war and is thrust up on stage to speak - in the midst of a gathering of radicals and hippies. SDS types. Black panthers. etc.

Forrest, looking completely honorable and completely out of place in his military dress uniform and medals, steps up to the microphone to speak.

Behind Forrest is a huge banner, which reads:

Support the troops. Bring them home.

Wow. Things never change. Was Cindy Sheehan out there somewhere? Howard Dean? George Soros?

Probably not. John Kerry probably was, though.

Get off the stage, Forrest. Run, Forrest, run.