re: #94 aatharuv

Several years ago, when I visited London, when we were briefly stopped at an intersection we saw one of those blue plaques that are _everywhere in our London to our right, “Here lived Benedict Arnold, American Patriot.” My fourth grade history would have had died of apoplexy if she had seen that.

Unfortunately, there were too many cars passing to take a good shot of it.

He was an American war hero. If he hadn’t turned traitor, he would be an American legend. Instead, he felt slighted by the way his government treated him for his efforts in the war, and now he is an object of scorn and derision.