Using that analogy, then Benedict Arnold deserves more than an empty boot.
From another damn Yankee whose great*grandad was injured fighting for the Union. :-)
My great great grandfathers were spaghetti benders with one potato eater living in distant lands during our civil war.
Benedict Arnold left the country and vilified it. He gets the boot....no more.
As my dad fought the Japanese during WW 2, I consider all American soldiers my kin back to the revolution.