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Forrest Umberger, who was the lead in the FunAddicts, during one of our performances on the Atlanta Peachtree Chapter shows in the late 1970's. Scanned and touched up a bit in Photoshop.
Larry and Ronnie Wells accepted the Bronze Star Medal posthumously awarded to their father Private First Class Forrest Wells on January 30, 2015.
The Cuban government put up a forrest of flagpoles to hide the US Embasy behind. The Americans used to display anti-communist slogans so the Cubans just hid them with hundereds of flags.
Forrest - 12 ans
(référence à Forrest Gump à cause de ses "baskets" blanches)
Cours Forrest, cours !
Forrest Gump, Jenny Curran.
So after Retta took my picture with Forrest, I returned the favor. My N95 was a bit slow in starting back up, so I apologized to him for the delay. He said "that's ok, I'll just hold your woman."
McLean County (the tiny Kentucky county just south of where I used to live in Owensboro) likes to promote itself as the site of "Forrest's First." There in late 1861, in a field just outside the tiny town of Sacramento, a Confederate Colonel named Nathan Bedford Forrest fought and won his first battle. It was a little skirmish, but McLean Countians have blown it up into something huge, claiming that the experience Forrest gained there led to the supposed brilliant leadership he displayed for the rest of the war.
So if the Battle of Sacramento can be said to be the site of Forrest's First victory, then this field at Brices Cross Roads is the site of Forrest's Last. He carried the day here, though doing so cost him his shot at Sherman. From here, he would go on to lose one big battle (more on that later), after which he would be little more than a raider, a rebel gnat buzzing in the face of the victorious Union. But his memory lingers on here north of Tupelo, where the private Brices Cross Roads Battlefield Commission and a few local families preserved the last field that was his, holding on tightly so that even now, it won't fall into Union hands.