Memorial service for Norwegian victims
via The Irish Times/irishtimes.com.
“FREEDOM IS stronger than fear,” Norway’s King Harald told his nation yesterday, hoping to unite a people shattered by the killing of 77 people last month by an anti-immigration zealot.
The king spoke, often in a trembling voice, at a national ceremony of remembrance for those killed by Anders Behring Breivik, who detonated a car bomb in Oslo and shot young people at a Labour Party camp on Utoeya island outside the capital.
Relatives sobbed when the names of the dead were read out one by one, while pictures of them were projected onto a screen.
“I maintain a belief that freedom is stronger than fear,” said King Harald. “It is good to be together at this time . . . As a father, grandfather and spouse, I can only begin to sense some of the pain you feel. As king of the nation I feel for every one of you.”
sorry, i've little to add to this that what is provided. i think it is a good time, along with the downfall of ghaddafi, to remember these victims of what was basically a rightist/skinhead-ish murder spree. (funny how "skinhead" isn't a much-used term anymore, is it?)
all thoughts for peace and living to those who have lost young loved ones there... it is one thing to expect this here in redneck america; it is another to see it happen in a region that knows how to take good care of its citizens.