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Ilsa

(61,690 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:34 PM Jun 2018

George Takei: "At least during the Internment..." are words I thought I'd never utter

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/19/at-least-during-the-internment-are-words-i-thought-id-never-utter-family-separation-children-border/amp/

“At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves,” Takei writes in an article for Foreign Policy magazine published Tuesday.

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George Takei: "At least during the Internment..." are words I thought I'd never utter (Original Post) Ilsa Jun 2018 OP

Thanks for posting this incredible post from George Takei... Stuart G Jun 2018 #1

Stuart G

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1. Thanks for posting this incredible post from George Takei...

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:01 PM

Jun 2018

bottom line, in ways, this is worse than the Japanese Internment...........

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