A Modern Moron Book Review

Army soldiers banging on our door, telling us to leave our home and take only what we can carry recalls George Takei in his latest book, "My Lost Freedom." 

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans living on the west coast to be rounded up and arrested on February 19, 1942. Takei was living in Los Angeles with his baby sister, older brother and his parents during this time. "My Lost Freedom" is George Takei's documentation as a 5-year-old boy going to prison because of his ancestry, along with his parents and siblings.

Takei was 4-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing more than 345 U.S. soldiers.   

This book pulls no punches, it presents the facts, yet doesn't judge. "My Lost Freedom" is the second book I've read on this subject. Another recommend read, "When the Emperor was Divine," written by Julie Otsuka.

Takei's mother was born legally in Sacramento, and her husband was a Japanese immigrant from San Francisco.  

The unjust Japanese prison's were nothing like the German had for the Jewish, and I thank all powers for that.

 

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki instantly killed more than a 130,000 or 150,000 people. Imagine your blood boiling the instant before you die, that's what is like being in direct contact with the atom bomb.

"My Lost Freedom" has the death toll numbers from Hiroshima and Nagasaki but doesn't refer to the blood boiling from the A bomb. I read that elsewhere. 

Five stars for George Takei's "My Lost Freedom," and yes, he's the George Takei, aka Mr. Sulu or Hikaru Sulu, the original "Star Trek." 

Mark Izzy Schurr