They forgot their matches....
Not bad. Only 25 posts to find somebody thinking along the same lines I'm thinking ... Like, maybe, this was a practice run. Next time they come along with petrol. And a lighter. Leftist kookbirds love to burn things. At least, they did back in the day ("Burn, baby, burn").
This act was not a protest against the war. The Memorial isn't really to the war. It's a memorial to the men who died there, and defacing it is a direct offence against them. Personally. The perpetrators are beneath contempt.