City seeks signage for Confederate Fountain; name change issue unresolved

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AL KNAUBER
Independent Record

Helena's city commissioners agreed on Wednesday to seek a recommendation for signange to accompany a 98-year-old city park memorial that honors Confederate soldiers who died during the Civil War.

The fountain became a focal point for criticism and calls by two members of the city commission to be rededicated in the wake of last month's slaying of nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The alleged gunman, Dylann Roof, who was photographed with a Confederate flag, was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, according to online news sources.

Members of the commission had been pondering whether to ask the City-County Parks Board for a recommendation on renaming the Confederate Fountain in Hill Park. The question of the proposed name change remains unresolved ...

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1. But how can they turn their back on their Heritage?

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3. No kidding! Who can forget the glorious role Montana played in the Civil War?

Some people, of course, will say the territory didn't actually become a state until 1889 -- but what is a little detail like that compared to this magnificent fountain erected by The Daughters of the Confederacy in Montana, with its inspiring inscription “A Longing Tribute to Our Confederate Soldiers”?

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