41 for Freedom refers to the US Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines from the George Washington, Ethan Allen, Lafayette, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin classes. These five classes of ballistic-missile submarines were limited by the 1972 SALT I Treaty which limited the number of American submarine-launched ballistic missiles to 656 missiles, thus totaling forty-one submarines, hence the nickname "41 for Freedom".
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“The reason artists show so little interest
In public freedom is because the freedom
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No one can give them they can scarce attain
The freedom of their own material....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)