Tourists treating 9/11 Memorial like a playground

[mookiemookie]

NY Post link, so take it with a grain of salt, but I find this behavior shameful. I remember when I visited the Arizona memorial and was a little offended when some of the Japanese tourists didn't seem to show any sort of respect. People are just clods.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...nqwuoAbdwOmC9J

At the National September 11th Memorial, tourists balance coffee cups and soda bottles on the parapets bearing the names of the dead.

Parents hoist their children to sit on the bronze plaques, while other visitors splash water from the two waterfalls onto their faces to cool themselves on a hot summer day.

On the plaza, tourists break out lunch foods and lie on their backs.