Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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