Committee offers options to explain Confederate fountain (MT)

21 hours ago • AL KNAUBER Independent Record

The Helena City Commission has a choice of disclaimers for use on a plaque explaining Helena’s monument to Confederate soldiers ...

The five options for a disclaimer came from the last meeting of the Helena/Lewis & Clark County Heritage Council ...

The options being offered to the commission range from no disclaimer to avoid creating a precedent, to one that poses questions to the reader, another that is specific to the fountain and lastly one that strongly distances the city from the Confederacy ...

Inscribed on the fountain is “A Loving Tribute to Our Confederate Soldiers” while on the other side is “By the Daughters of the Confederacy in Montana, A.D. 1916” ...

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