Amid the debate over monuments to Confederate heroes, someone — and I guess it’s me — has to point out that Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the other Confederates were, after all, traitors to the United States. If there were a monument to Benedict Arnold anywhere in the country, most people would approve of taking it down or, at least, putting it in a museum rather than on public land.
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Letter: Don’t honor traitors to the U.S.
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