Actor George Takei shared a few vivid memories with the Board of Supervisors before it repealed L.A. County's support for the internment of Japanese Americans and others of Japanese descent during World War II.

“I was 4 years old at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941,” said Takei, best known for his role as Lt. Hikaru Sulu in the "Star Trek" television series and feature films. “But I have a memory that’s seared into my mind from when I just turned 5 in April of 1942.”

On Wednesday, Takei, now 75, recounted the day when soldiers with shining bayonets on their rifles banged on the door of his Los Angeles home and herded his family into a waiting truck. They were taken with others of Japanese lineage to living quarters in a horse stable at the Santa Anita racetrack that reeked of manure.

“As my mother carried my baby sister and a duffel bag, I saw tears rolling down her checks,” Takei said. She "thought it was the most humiliating and degrading experience of her life."

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