{"id":43410,"date":"2014-07-09T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/george-takei-on-wwii-and-patriotism.html"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:34:58","slug":"george-takei-on-wwii-and-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/george-takei-on-wwii-and-patriotism.html","title":{"rendered":"George Takei on WWII and Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"
A remarkably moving and inspiring talk from a man who was interned during the Second World War as an "enemy non-alien."\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Why I love a country that once betrayed me<\/a>
\n When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a \u201csecurity” measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.\n <\/p>\n

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A remarkably moving and inspiring talk from a man who was interned during the Second World War as an "enemy non-alien."\ufeff Why I love a country that once betrayed me When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a \u201csecurity” measure during World War … Continue reading “George Takei on WWII and Patriotism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,10,108,17,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-history","category-homeland-security","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32476,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/george-takei-on-hawaii-five-0.html","url_meta":{"origin":43410,"position":0},"title":"George Takei on "Hawaii Five 0"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Feb-13 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Caught this episode off the DVR early this week. \u00a0Nothing spectacular, but Takei;s cameo was a fun one. 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