http://www.metafilter.com/tags/CampTuleLake Posts tagged with 'CampTuleLake' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:50:20 -0800 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:50:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35157/George%2DTakei%2Dbehind%2Dbarbed%2Dwire <a href="http://georgetakei.com/news.asp">"<i>The camp is in northern California, almost at the Oregon border.</a> It has an almost mockingly poetic name, Camp Tule Lake. It as there in a barbed wire camp built on a wind-swept dry lake bed that I spent two and a half years of my boyhood after a year and a half in another internment camp in Arkansas...These pilgrimages back to a little remembered time in our history help enlarge my appreciation of the preciousness of our American liberty and my awareness of its fragility. They also deepen my understanding of the painful human price paid by such failures of our democracy.</i>" Star Trek's George Takei (the unflappable <a href="http://www.barbneal.com/sulu.asp">Mr. Sulu</a>) revisits the internment camp of his <a href="http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/malkin1.html">racially-profiled</a> boyhood. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35157 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:50:20 -0800 CampTuleLake georgetakei intermentcamp internment japaneseamericans sulu ww2 inksyndicate