{"id":284,"date":"2018-11-28T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/?p=284"},"modified":"2018-11-28T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:43:50","slug":"response-to-norm-beange-light-from-many-lamps-franklin-d-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/11\/28\/response-to-norm-beange-light-from-many-lamps-franklin-d-roosevelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Norm Beange &#8211; Light From Many Lamps &#8211; Franklin D. Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yuKBKH3pEZ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/11\/27\/light-from-many-lamps-franklin-d-roosevelt\/\">Light From Many Lamps &#8211; Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Light From Many Lamps &#8211; Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8221; &#8212; Norm Beange\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/11\/27\/light-from-many-lamps-franklin-d-roosevelt\/embed\/#?secret=Lgx8SNt60N#?secret=yuKBKH3pEZ\" data-secret=\"yuKBKH3pEZ\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Norm, I appreciated so much your reflection on this chapter of the book and your summary of Roosevelt&#8217;s final speech. I had heard of the speech and its impact but, truthfully, I didn&#8217;t know about it being delivered the day after Roosevelt&#8217;s death. The fact that he died the day before the speech was to be delivered definitely gives the words more gravity and their effect is definitely more profound.<\/p>\n<p>I also appreciate how you highlight the current cultural unease with historical figures and how they&#8217;ve been celebrated. Whether it&#8217;s a statue or the naming of an institution, leaders who were recognized in the past despite their failings are now coming under closer scrutiny. Your examples of Thomas Jefferson and John A. MacDonald help bring some great perspective to this very real and present issue.<\/p>\n<p>This generation will need to figure out how to honour leaders of the past who may not meet the moral qualifications of modern society. How do we celebrate the contribution of leaders like Jefferson or MacDonald while not necessarily affirming all of their behaviour? This is a very real current struggle.<\/p>\n<p>This struggle also points to the future. What behaviour is considered acceptable by modern standards but, in the future, may be held with disdain? How are leaders today supposed to conduct themselves to a moral standard of modern society but also of a future society of which they have no knowledge? This seems, at best, very difficult and, at worst, a fool&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light From Many Lamps &#8211; Franklin D. Roosevelt Norm, I appreciated so much your reflection on this chapter of the book and your summary of Roosevelt&#8217;s final speech. I had heard of the speech and its impact but, truthfully, I didn&#8217;t know about it being delivered the day after Roosevelt&#8217;s death. The fact that he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/11\/28\/response-to-norm-beange-light-from-many-lamps-franklin-d-roosevelt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Norm Beange &#8211; Light From Many Lamps &#8211; Franklin D. 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