George Takei Interview Highlights

Welcome to History for the Reckoning. In this powerful highlight, George Takei recalls the morning his childhood was shattered during World War II. "I’ll never be able to forget that morning—it’s seared into my memory. I was five years old. My father came into the bedroom I shared with my brother and told us to play while he and my mother did last-minute packing. Suddenly, two soldiers marched up the driveway, rifles with gleaming bayonets, and pounded on our door. They ordered us out of our home. My mother emerged, carrying my baby sister and a heavy duffel bag, tears streaming down her cheeks. We were herded onto a truck with other families, then buses, then assigned to sleep in horse stalls at a racetrack, the stench of manure everywhere. My mother just kept repeating, 'So degrading, so degrading.' We were American citizens, but that morning, we were treated as enemies by our own country." Thank you for listening to History for the Reckoning.

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