article_snippet: (CNN)Kids, being kids, like to climb on things.
article_snippet: That's the question burning up online parenting groups and in family rooms after an amateur photographer snapped a picture of two children scampering on top of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington.
article_snippet: The photographer, Matt Munson, described the shot on Facebook as "two little brats climbing over war memorial right in front of a veteran.
article_snippet: As this photo went viral, comment after comment poured in on Facebook and Twitter, chastising the parents for allowing the kids to play on the statue, part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that depicts three women tending to a wounded soldier.
article_snippet: But the writer said a grandfather who was a veteran of World War II "loved watching the kids play on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial."
article_snippet: And a statue depicting a nurse caring for a gravely wounded man just doesn't seem to be the place for play, a Reddit user with the screen name nickfree wrote.
article_snippet: On the Mommyish parenting blog, associate editor Maria Guido wrote that "there's nothing wrong with children who may not understand how gleefully playing all over a memorial may seem inappropriate to some."
article_snippet: If these kids were just doing that -- gleefully playing all over a memorial -- I wouldn't find anything wrong with the image, actually.
highlights_snippet: A photo of children playing on Vietnam Women's Memorial draws anger .
  