The Best Years of Our Lives - Or Punching Nazi's

Some one has a post up, commending this scene from the "Best Years of Our lives" 

And its literally the phoniest, worst scene, in an otherwise great movie . We're supposed to believe that someone would defend - in public - to a disabled Vet (!), the "Japs" attack on Pearl Harbor.  Even worse,  this guy is such a horses ass, he tells him his Shipmates "Died for nothing".

What an absurd straw-man. 

What's even more absurd is after Ray Teal tells the disabled vet to " Just read the facts" Harold Russell attacks him.  And when Teal defends himself, Dana Andrews self-righteously comes out of nowhere and sucker punches Teal into a Glass Case.

Andrews should have been arrested for assault and thrown in jail! Instead, he just quits his job, and we're supposed to applaud him for attacking a middle aged man and possibly causing him some serious permanent injury!  I'm sure the Midway Drug Chain had to pay the Ray Teal character a tidy sum - assuming he lived.

Its scary how the Left, has *always* been against the American value of Free Speech.

BTW, Wyler wanted the script to read "Jews in Washington" not "Radicals in Washington" - but was overruled.