August 19, 2012

Four Freedoms

When we can, we like to take the road less traveled (http://www.netpoets.com/poems/life/0406007.htm), as the poem goes. And so we visited Madison, Florida, only 90 miles west of Jacksonville.  We found their town square and I snapped some pics of this wonderful statue of four angels back to back, each representing our four freedoms. It was dedicated to World War II B-17 pilot, Colin P. Kelly, shot down just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In 1941, President F. D. Roosevelt talked about these four freedoms in his annual State of the Union address to the nation. This sculpture is a wonderful way to depict them.
  
Freedom of Speech

 
Freedom from Fear


Freedom from Want


Freedom of Worship