Do you support the memorial for the Norwegian massacre victims?

[countryjake]

18. Don't know whether I "support" it, I'm not Norwegian...

but that design was chosen by a majority in the competition for who would be the creator of that memorial.

While it is a moving tribute, the problem I would have with it (mainly, if I were one of the loved ones of the 69 who were murdered right there on that island) is that there is no longer access to the point of that tiny peninsula. When one goes to visit the place where a tragedy such as this has occurred, if you were directly affected and actually lost a child or friend, it seems that the very end of that island might be the spot you'd become the most contemplative, after walking the original trail to that point to take in the beauty of the area while being acutely aware of your loss. With the abrupt cut of this memorial, that will no longer be possible; it's stated that even the path that the campers always used is being bypassed and forgotten, in favor of a wide winding walkway.

So, as a parent who sat here aghast at the news of the bombing and then the massacre on that island, trying to imagine the "what if" my own child were cornered there, and given the horrible choice of heading for the beach to swim for her life or be shot down as she ran, I, myself, can also imagine that the loved ones may prefer that the island be left whole as a place for their own private reverie. But this was also a national tragedy for Norway in which 77 were killed, in all; this is the memorial that the country has chosen; and I'm not a Norwegian.