(The Swedish Naval dead)
These are some photos from a fascinating cemetery on Djurgarten, near the Vasa museum. The cemetery is a naval one, and so there are many stones for admirals, captains, and entire ships' crews who perished at sea.
I am including the stone for Olaf Palme, which we came across in a churchyard. Palme is the Swedish Prime Minister who was shockingly murdered in 1986 as he was out on a Stockholm street without bodyguards, as was the norm before his murder, walking home from a movie with his wife (who was also shot but recovered). His murder has still not been solved. He was a hero to many on the global left, who also criticized the Soviet Union for its policies. The list of the issues he supported and opposed reads like that of a man whose only question, when deciding where he stood, was "What is the RIGHT, the ETHICAL and the MORAL thing to believe?" His death was a loss to us all, and was a great shock to Scandinavia for its violence, in a country where shooting deaths rarely occurred.
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