They Called Enemy part 3
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- My family along with other families was also afraid because men who were not American citizens were going to be deported to Japan if they were not "willing to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered." The government also wanted everyone to "swore unqualified allegiance to the United States of America."
- "San Francisco lawyer, Wayne Collins challenged order 9066 at the supreme court," on behalf of over 900 people in the camps and won. People didn't have to give up their citizenship and could stay with their families in the U.S. Everyone was then let out of the camps.
- nono
- My father, who was not yet an American citizen, refused and wrote "no" when asked these questions. Like many other people in the camps, my mother renounced her US citizenship so our family could survive and would be deported together to Japan (where we had never lived) and wouldn't be pulled apart.
- nono
- "After 4 long years, our days behind barbed wire had come to and end. Our first home after the camps was on skid row back in Los Angeles. It was a horrible experience for us kids. It was traumatizing."
- Even though we had to live in terrible conditions for many years after the camps, "children are amazingly adaptable. we would survive this experience too."
- "Several years later I enrolled in UCLA for college studying theater and training to become an actor." "My breakthrough role was on a racially-diverse show in the 1960s called Star Trek."
- "As Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, I had the chance to represent my Asian heritage with honor to millions of viewers on television."
- "But most importantly, my unexpected notoriety has allowed me a platform from which to address many social causes that need attention."
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