Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, United States. It is in the northwestern part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, approximately 35 miles (56 km) from Downtown Los Angeles and is less than 15 mi (24 km) from the Los Angeles city neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
Tom Hanks, I owe you so much of my heart. 1. Talk to strangers, you never know who you are going to meet. Forrest Gump is almost entirely a story told by a man sitting on a park bench, waiting for the number 9 bus as he talks to anyone who will sit down next to him.
That should've been the light cruiser USS Oklahoma City firing from the gunline in Vietnam, and not the USS Salt Lake City (which was a WWII heavy cruiser)by the way. Former army LT Winston Groom wrote Forrest Gump. He served in the unit depicted in Gump's movie, Company A, 2/47th Inf, 3rd Bde, 9th ID in South Vietnam.