When I first skimmed over your review, and saw glimpses of paint on the memorial, and saw the act attributed to anonymous, I had hoped that this was an act of vandalism on a national scale, a statement about the loss of personal privacy in our nation. I was sorry to see that there was no explicit message, that no one had written out the shame our former national leaders, the ones we have immortalized in marble, would feel knowing how our rights have been eroded by the NSA. I want to see someone vandalize our holy shrines of patriotism, and I believe that Washington being our national stage, it is the most effective place to rebel.