from the Prologue
In 1943, Norman Rockwell painted a series of four paintings titled together The Four Freedoms. These works - Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want - illustrate four American values as highlighted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address to Congress in 1941. Freedom from Want depicts a family sitting at a Thanksgiving table. A grandmotherly figure in an apron is setting the turkey on the table. Garrulous relatives spanning