One response to the storyswirl about the young men photographed peeing on the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Canada Day: A letter to the Globe & Mail declared this kind of thing only happens because our young people have too little appreciation for the past. We need more history taught in our schools, etc.
I'm all for history teaching, but I laughed out loud to think of it being the new mandate of teachers and professors all across the country: to prevent peeing on our national monuments.
Come to think of it, peeing on the national monuments might be a metaphor for the ambitions of some historians.
