A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, for real!

"The man without a country" was a short story written by Edward Everet Hale in 1863 amidst the American Civil War. With tensions high, and the thought of a united America was visited only in some's dreams, Hale wanted to depict the happenings of a Army Lieutenant that publicly damned his country to show the result of the upheaval in the north and south. Nolan is the main character who is exiled into the sea when he is tried for treason, and is thus named, "man without a country". Over a century later, the news headlines speak of a man similar to Nathan who has been revoked of citizenship and has no territory in any country. Johannes Leprich, former Nazi concentration guard was set free from the FBI after failing to find a country to accept him. For 3 years he has been a man without a country. After World War II, he fled to America and changed his identity to hide his past of Nazi association. In 1987, the government discovered his Nazi Party identity and revoked his citizenship, forcing him to flee to Canada. However, in 2003, he was found hidden under the floorboards of his families home in Detroit, and was taken away in handcuffs. When Hale wrote this story, he made it to be so outlandish and fictional. Now, in 2006, a man without a country is an identifiable term that holds truth.