National Defense: Enough!

Camp Lee, Va. was named for General Robert E. Lee. The camp's newspaper was named Traveller, after Lee's horse. These progressive tributes to the Confederacy's first soldier were all right with the War Department, but when the camp's quartermaster corps submitted its proposed insignia last week the Department turned it down cold. Background of the rejected insignia were the Stars and Bars of the Confederate flag.

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