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'George Takei was just 4 years old when when President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed Executive Order 9066:
"I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military
Commanders... to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent
as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or
all persons may be excluded..."
It was Feb. 19, 1942. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor two months earlier; For
looking like the enemy, Japanese and Japanese American people in the U.S. were
now considered "enemy combatants" and the executive order authorized the
government to forcibly remove approximately 125,000 people from their homes and
relocate them to prison camps around the country.
Star Trek actor George Takei has written about this time in his life before —
once in an autobiography, then in a graphic memoir, and now in his new
children's book,
My Lost Freedom.
It's about the years he and his mom, dad, brother and baby sister spent in a
string of prison camps: swampy Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, desolate Tule Lake in
northern California. But first, they were taken from their home, driven to the
Santa Anita racetrack and forced to live in horse stalls while the camps were
being built.'
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
