National Security: Four Freedoms

Last week, Rick Patrick wrote a cover article for this newspaper and asked the question, Can the Four Freedoms Monument be saved?  He points out that the monument to the first hero of World War II, Madison’s own Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr. was never designed for outdoors.  Instead, its composite construction was designed for an indoor setting.  Over 80 years, since its unveiling on June 14, 1944, the monument has suffered from rain erosion.  The most important thing for us to concentrate o