I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

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10 seconds sound clip from the Forrest Gump (1994) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:13:46 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I got it just by doing what you told me to do.

- Why are you so good to me?

- You're my girl.

- I'll always be your girl.

- And just like that, she was gone, out of my life again.

- That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

- I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong.

- So, I was in the Special Services, traveling around the country cheering up all them wounded veterans and showing them how to play Ping-Pong.

- I was so good that some years later the Army decided that I should be on the All-American Ping-Pong team.

- We were the first Americans to visit the land of China in like a million years, or something like that.

- Somebody said world peace was in our hands, but all I did was play Ping-Pong.

[...]

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