Star Trek fans will review that, before George Takei was a author, he was Leader Hiraru Sulu (later, Commander Sulu) of the Starship Enterprise.

Takei's mom, similar to he and his sibling, were American residents, brought into the world in the USA. In his realistic novel/journal, Takei tells how at only 4 years of age he and his family had to abandon their homes and organizations and go to Japanese Internment Camps per President Roosevelt's decree that followed the bombarding of Pearl Harbor. Suspicion had cleared the country and Japanese American's were singled out as the adversary who could "never be relied upon" dependent exclusively upon their looks.

Takei realistic novel delineates the embarrassment, outrage, misery, disarray and selling out experienced by his family and others as their nation betrayed them and they were immediately put onto transports and constrained into isolation camps.

Afterward, when extra troopers were required in the conflict, the US permitted Japanese Americans to join up - gave they marked the "Devoted Residents" survey. The country that took everything from them was presently requesting that they repudiate their legacy as well. The individuals who didn't consent to all things on the survey were detained at Leavenworth Government Prison, others were moved to most extreme security isolation camps.

Albeit future presidents apologized for their unfair internment, many individuals' biases didn't decrease and numerous Japanese American's never completely recuperated from their injury. "I realize that I will constantly be spooky by the bigger, ambiguously recollected truth of the conditions of my experience growing up."

As well as being a fruitful creator and entertainer, Takei plays assumed the part of extremist battling treacheries in our nation and all over the planet. An enchanting, shocking memory of perhaps of the most dishonorable period in US History, They Called Us Enemy is a must read for each one.