James Lee Barrett

North Carolina · born or raised South Carolina · connected1929–1989

Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine (1929-1989)

Born in Charlotte
Studied at Anderson University source

screenwriter, film producer, actor, writer

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it!

There's nothing much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I suppose. The undertakers are winning it. Oh, the politicians will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the soldiers, they just want to go home.