Every time I hear someone talk about "Homeland Security" or "attacks on the homeland," I expect to have to go to a May Day missile parade or click my heels and say, "Sieg heil."
When did we start to have a "homeland"? I have a home. I bought it and am still paying for it. I have a country. It's only a coincidence, because I was born here, but I love it anyway. But a homeland? That's something from a bad spy movie or an over-the-top drama about the evil German colonel with a monocle and a riding crop. ("Ve must defend ze homeland against all invaders!" "Sieg heil, Herr Colonel!")
I don't want a homeland. I liked having a home and a country. I want to go back to having a country. Let the movie Nazis and Russians have a homeland. Please give me back my country.
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