Letter to the editor: Confederate soldiers were not traitors

I am disappointed in Colin Powell, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Democrats for playing politics by calling the Confederate military “traitors.” They are playing insult politics with the dead who were faithfully defending their seceded independent country and its principles.

I remember in the 1950s when both sides of the Civil War got together in Gettysburg and talked peacefully. My great-grandfather was in the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry and fought in several battles of the Civil War, including Gettysburg, where he was wounded.

Using their “new normal,” politically correct definition of traitor, the people living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone were traitors. (Words mean things.) Unless the penalty for treason has changed, they should be hung whether they were traitors for a day or traitors for years.

George Biskup

Penn Township, Westmoreland County