The end of Swedish innocense

This early morning (around 5 a.m.)when I had just finished a phonecall to a special person far away, I watched the surgeons comment on the early morning tv-news, and there seemed to be some hope, and a pleasant further nap of a few hours (ahh, to be a full time student..), with pleasant dreams, I wake up to a friend calling and telling me she's passed away.

This is worse than when someone shot Palme in the 80-ies. He pissed off a lot of people (not that his death was'nt horrible, but somehow it was a bit easier to grasp..). But Anna Lindh???
The very likable and capable minister of foreign affairs, in broad daylight outside of NK (our version of Bloomingdales)!
So very violent too, stabs to the abdomen and chest, with a knife...

She leaves behind a weeping family and a nation of ppl that definitely have lost their low-crime virginity.

Mo(u)rning

Also...jenny_li has an open post on such a rare occasion. She remembers Anna Lindh from years ago, as a young Social democrat in high school (just as I myself was).

Anna Lindh was just 47 years old, openly agains the US war in Iraq, got her law degree here in Uppsala once upon a time...

Go read the post if you're so inclined, it sums up my thoughts on this matter exactly.