e accomplished a lot and people expect you to do the same, then this expression applies to you. Forrest learns the horror of war: He loses one friend, but saves another. Two standing orders in this platoon. A "standing order" is an order that is always in force and therefore doesn't need to be repeated. A "platoon" is a group of soldiers. I sure hope I don't let him down. "To let someone down" is to disappoint them. We were always looking for this guy named Charley. "Charley company" was a reference to the Vietcong soldiers fighting the Americans. He was always getting funny feelings. In this case, suspicions that the enemy was near by. Check out that hole. "To check out" something is a very useful phrasal verb meaning to investigate. Rain that flew in sideways. From one side (as opposed to from the top, or from the sky). We're a good partnership. We be watching out for each other. Note that in the grammar of Black English, the progressive tense ("we are watching...") is constructed with the base of the verb ("We be watching"). I'll be the captain and split everything right down the middle: Fifty-fifty. A very common way to say that all profits or anything else will be equally divided. And just like that, somebody turned off the rain. Forrest's poetic way of saying "Suddenly, it stopped raining." Mayday! Pull back! Run, god damn it! "Mayday" is a military and navigational expression meaning help!, or emergency! "To pull back" is a good phrasal verb meaning retreat. Bubba was my best good friend. I had to make sure he was OK. Note that the correct phrase is simply "my best friend." I grabbed him up and run him out of there. "To grab" is to seize suddenly, usually with your hands. "To run somebody out of some place" usually means to chase them out, but in this case, it means to carry them out in order to save them. We got Charley all over this area. "The army has lots of soldiers all around here." The whole god damn platoon is wiped out. "To wipe out" something is a strong phrasal verb which means to destroy it. They're going to nape the whole area! "Nape" is short for "napalm," the poison gas that the US army used in Vietnam to destroy the Vietnamese jungles. God damn it! Get your ass out of here! A crude way to tell someone to leave immediately. I want to go to heaven. :::: That isn't something you can find just around the corner. If something is available "just around the corner," this means that it will be easy to find. Forrest returns to America as a war hero, but Lieutenant Dan is not even sure he wants to return. It bit me directly in the buttocks. This is your ass, butt or if you prefer a French word, derriere. Forrest's pronunciation of "buttocks" is exagg
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