So Richmond, Va., is putting up a mural showing Robert E. Lee (Sun-Sentinel, July 23). How about one for Benedict Arnold? In some ways, he was less of a traitor than Lee, who led Confederate forces in an aggressive war against the North that he realized the South couldn't win. Yes, he was a brave man and deserves his place in history, but not as a national hero.
As for the Confederate flag, the NAACP has made an issue of it as being a symbol of slavery. But it is more than that. It is a symbol of treason: treason against the United States of America. Indeed, the attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor in 1861 was an act of treasonous military aggression against the U.S. and should be remembered as such and not only as the spark that ignited the American Civil War.