Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 9/15/04: George Takei, chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Japanese American National Museum...

Jacob Lawrence, "War No. 8," 1947 — Jacob Lawrence, *War No. 8: Beachhead* (1947)

September 15, 2004:

George Takei, chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, UC Berkeley alumnus, as the homicidal Vietnamese Captain Nim, speaking pidgin.

Jack Soo, Chinese American, as the Vietnamese Colonel Cai, a man who requires instruction from the tough-yet-soft-hearted American Colonel Kirby re how to be just to his own family. Speaking pidgin.

Music: sometimes Japanese, kotos and flutes; sometimes Hollywood Chinese, ching-chong, ching-chong.

The VC are said to force young men to fight for them; yet in combat they're all zealots.