Takei notes that many of his memories were coloured by the innocence of childhood but once the war was over and he began to grow up, the reality of what the camps were and what they represented began to become apparent. Takekuma and Fumiko married in Los Angeles and George was born in 1937. Takei's mother, Fumiko Emily Nakamura was born in Florin, California and educated in Japan to avoid school segregation. He attended high school and then opened a dry-cleaning business in Los Angeles. His father, Takekuma Norman Takei, was born in Yamanshi, Japan and came to America as a teenager. Takei tells the audience he is a veteran of the Starship Enterprise whose mission was "to explore strange new worlds, seek out new live and new civilizations.to boldly go where no one has gone before." Takei was "the grandson of immigrants who went to America. George, speaking at a TEDxKyoto talk in Japan in 2014, tells the audience he was never able to forget that scene and goes on to describe what led to it and what happened afterwards. Both George and Henry do not understand and watch their mother tearfully carry their baby sister out of the house.
As they are packing, police come to the door and tell George's father, Takekuma Norma Takei, that under Executive Order 9066, the must leave immediately. George and his younger brother, Henry are woken up during the night by their father and told to get dressed quickly. They Called Us Enemy is the graphic memoir for actor/author/activist George Takei who along with his family endured imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
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