5 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:54:04.248 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- As Mr. Milton so perfectly expressed it, our country stands today where it stands today. Wherever that is.
- And I'm sure you'd all agree with me if I said that now's the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war, and go fishing.
- But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word.
- My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word.
- I wanna tell you that the reason for my success as a sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Corn Belt Loan and Trust Company.
- The knowledge I acquired in the good old bank I applied to my problems in the infantry.
- For instance, one day in Okinawa, a major comes up to me he says, Stephenson, you see that hill?
- Yes, sir. I see it.
- All right, he said. You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it.
- So I said to the major, But, uh, that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral.
- I'm aware of that, said the major, but the fact remains, that there is the hill and you are the guys who are going to take it.
- So I said to him, I'm sorry, major. No collateral, no hill. So we didn't take the hill, and we lost the war.
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