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We Japanese Americans Must Not Forget Our Wartime Internment
The degrading treatment of Japanese American families like mine is the theme of my new musical, Allegiance
By George Takei
May 01, 2012 "The Guardian" -- Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family's home in Los Angeles, ordering us out. Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl Harbor a few months before. I'll never forget that day, nor the tears streaming down my mother's face as we were forcibly removed, herded off like animals, to a nearby race track. There, for weeks, we would live in a filthy horse stable while our "permanent" relocation camp was being constructed thousands of miles away in Arkansas, in a place called Rohwer.
We Japanese Americans Must Not Forget Our Wartime Internment
The degrading treatment of Japanese American families like mine is the theme of my new musical, Allegiance
By George Takei
May 01, 2012 "The Guardian" -- Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family's home in Los Angeles, ordering us out. Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl Harbor a few months before. I'll never forget that day, nor the tears streaming down my mother's face as we were forcibly removed, herded off like animals, to a nearby race track. There, for weeks, we would live in a filthy horse stable while our "permanent" relocation camp was being constructed thousands of miles away in Arkansas, in a place called Rohwer.
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