Lieutenant Dan Taylor

Lieutenant Dan Taylor is a fictional character featured prominently in both the novel and movie Forrest Gump. In the latter, he was portrayed by Gary Sinise, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role. According to Forrest, Lieutenant Dan came from a long military tradition, with relatives having "fought and died in every single American war". The film showed a brief montage of his ancestors (all portrayed by Sinise) dying on battlefields in the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II, though they did leave out the War of 1812, Spanish American War ,Mexican American War, and the Korean War and many others. In the movie, viewers are first introduced to Lieutenant Dan when Forrest and his...