the last book I ever read (Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, excerpt six)

from Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:

“Mr. President,” Milley said, “I think you should ban the flags, change the names of the bases, and take down the statues.”

He continued, “I’m from Boston, these guys were traitors.”

Someone asked, what about the Confederate dead buried at Arlington National Cemetery?

“Interestingly,” Milley said of the nearly 500 Confederate soldiers buried there, “they’re arranged in a circle and the names on the gravestones are facing inward, and that symbolizes that they turned their back on the Union. They were traitors at the time, they are traitors today, and they’re traitors in death for all of eternity. Change the names, Mr. President.”