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In Bayou La Batre, hit by Katrina, movie drama becomes all too real
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (ABP) -- In the Hollywood film "Forrest Gump," the hero scores an economic coup when his boat is the only one in the Bayou La Batre, Ala., shrimping fleet to survive a hurricane. Sadly, for the real-life Bayou La Batre, "Forrest Gump" was fiction. This blue-collar hamlet south of Mobile, where...
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