East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial
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This is the East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial, taken at night. The stones list the names of those East Tennesseans who died in wars, from the First World War on. The center monolith has the words Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, one on each side. These are taken from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address to the Congress in January, 1941.
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial
© Copyright John C. House, Everyday Miracles Photography. All Rights Reserved. Please do not use in any way without my express consent. As always, this is better viewed large.
This is the East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial, taken at night. The stones list the names of those East Tennesseans who died in wars, from the First World War on. The center monolith has the words Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, one on each side. These are taken from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address to the Congress in January, 1941.
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941