Idiot Alert Files Update

Membership goes out today to a couple who were in Ottawa this past weekend. I saw them there on Saturday afternoon, at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square. Specifically, they were in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier when they came to my attention. It was quite obvious that the Memorial and its meaning were lost on these two cretins, most especially the woman. They spent no particular time gazing upward at the twenty-two statues representing members of the main forces in uniform passing through a granite arch under the guidance of allegorical figures of Peace and Freedom. Instead, they approached the first person passing by and asked them to act as their photographer while they posed in front of the Memorial. Nothing too unusual there, you might say, except for what the feeble-minded woman did next. She dumped her purse and a bag on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, right beside the plaque that asks passers-by to treat the tomb with respect. Once the photo was taken and the camera returned, these two muttonheads walked away.
The Tomb is an actual grave. In May 2000, the remains of an unidentified Canadian Soldier who died in World War I were repatriated from France, to be buried there in front of the National War Memorial. The Tomb was created to honour the more than 116,000 Canadians who have sacrificed their lives to help secure the peace and freedom with which we here in Canada are blessed. It would be most interesting to see how this mentally deficient female and her consort would conduct themselves in a cemetery. Perhaps if the locale was more easily recognizable to her as a place of final repose, she might behave with a little more decorum. Of course, it is just as possible that the resting places of others mean nothing to her unless they are located in surroundings she considers worthy as a photographic backdrop for her posing and posturing. I wonder if this idiot would have felt the battlefield on which the Unknown Soldier fell to be a worthy photo-op, and just where she would have dumped her purse in order to get the best shot?