How do you know it'll be different anyplace else?

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

You can hear this line at 02:33:06.300 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You forgot these, son.

- Oh, I don't want them, Pop.

- What are they?

- 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?

- 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.

- 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.

- I know you haven't had the best of breaks since you got back but, well, it seems like you ought to stick here, and slug it out a while longer on your own home ground.

- You're all right, Pop. But I know when it's time to bail out. I gotta get going.

- Here are your clean socks, Fred.

- Oh, just put them in here.

[...]

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