I would think that might be extremely useful.
An example of a problem with our cenotaph here in Ottawa that happened a few years ago was that it was a young student, who I think had probably had too much to drink, urinating on the War Memorial. I don't think he intended any disrespect, but it was a disrespectful act.
I think the subjective intention of the perpetrator is to some extent important, if an aggregating factor in sentencing is that it was particularly offensive to a certain set of values attached to the War Memorial.