The thing that scares me most is that everybody's gonna try to rehabilitate me. All I want's a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife. Give me that much and I'm rehabilitated like that.

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

14 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:10:00.459 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- And it'll be all right, sailor. You wait and see.

- Yeah. Wait and see.

- Wilma's only a kid. She's never seen anything like these hooks.

- Say, heh, wait till I get home and tell the folks about this trip. I'm the first one in my family that ever rode in an aeroplane.

- Hey, Al.

- Yeah?

- You remember what it felt like when you went overseas?

- As well as I remember my own name.

- I feel the same way now. Only more so.

- I know what you mean.

- Just nervous out of the service, I guess, heh.

- The thing that scares me most is that everybody's gonna try to rehabilitate me. All I want's a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife. Give me that much and I'm rehabilitated like that.

- I'd say that's not too much to ask.

- You married, Al?

- Yep.

- How long?

- Twenty years.

- Twenty years? Holy smoke. We didn't even have twenty days before I went over.

- I married a girl I met when I was in training in Texas.

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