![]() ![]() The story is narrated from Takei’s point of view he shares the writing credits with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, while Harmony Becker illustrates. Leave it to George Takei in the year 2019 to exhume that bit of trivia, and the realization that he was quietly living history here, long before he was one of the most famous entertainers on the planet. History test, I don’t remember anyone underlining the fact that we had internment camps inside our state. And I will tell you this, as a former Northwest Arkansas public school kid who scored a 5 on his AP U.S. ![]() They were some of the thousands of Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans shipped to that camp, one of 10 the federal government maintained during World War II. ![]() In “They Called Us Enemy,” the “Star Trek” actor’s new graphic novel memoir from Top Shelf, Takei tells the story of his family being removed from their homes in 1942 and sent by train to an internment camp - a euphemism, Takei notes archly, for imprisonment - in southeast Arkansas. ![]() Somehow George Takei’s entire life is timely right now, and wouldn’t you know it, there’s an Arkansas angle. ![]()
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