- Think you're doing the right thing, son?
- You mean going? Who's to say in advance whether it's the right thing or the wrong thing? It just means a fresh start in some other place.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:32:56.193 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Here's an old sweater I found. Remember you wore it in high school?
- Sure.
- Just a lot of fancy words that don't mean anything. You can throw them away.
- Say, these are citations for your medals.
- Why, Freddy, you never showed them to us.
- Those things came in the packages of K rations.
- Well, we'll treasure them, my boy.
- I'll get the socks I washed for you.
- Think you're doing the right thing, son?
- How do you know it'll be different anyplace else?
- There's a need here for fellas like yourself that fought and won the war.
- You're all right, Pop. But I know when it's time to bail out. I gotta get going.
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