As a child, George Takei, his siblings and parents, all United States citizens, were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. Seventy years later, Takei looks back at how the experience shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.
References:
- Connert Media, December 12, 2016 – Internment Camps Reawakens Painful Memory
- Media Matters, November 17, 2016 – Internment Camp Survivor George Takei Warns That Trump’s Muslim Registry Is “A Prelude To Internment” – Takei: “Registration Of Any Group Of People, And Certainly Registration Of Muslims, Is A Prelude To Internment … This Must Not Happen Again”
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