As he delivered his State of the Union Address in January of 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was faced with the daunting task of inspiring Americans to accept his plans to increase production during the war effort. His goal was to gain victory in the raging conflict with Hitler in Europe. He appealed to the national love of freedom, predicting that four essential freedoms, including the freedom to worship God, could only be restored to Europe by defeating Hitler.
Here are the words, in part, to FDR's speech: "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.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands, heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
Name: Stephen Russell Scrivener
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force O2 - 1LT Pilot
Unit:
Date of Birth: 10 October 1944
Home City of Record: TAMPA FL
Male,, Caucasian, Single
Date of Loss: 16 March 1971
Casuality Type: Hostile, Died Missing
Country of Loss: LAOS - Savannakhet Province
Loss Coordinates: 164759 North 1062559 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: O2A - Aircraft downed
Missions:
Location on The Wall Panel 04W - Row 055
Other Personnel in Incident:
Douglas Seeley, KIA/BNR
Refno: 1726
PFC. Lori Piestewa
a Hopi and Hispanic soldier from
Tuba City, Arizona
For Lori Piestewa's family, the war became more personal, as news came to their home one evening on April 4th as two Pentagon officials informed the family that Lori was officially declared "Killed In Action."
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