Father ‘appalled’ by disrespectful Facebook pic
By Jessica Heslam | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
The mortified father of a Plymouth woman under cyber assault for posting a photo of herself flipping the bird at sacred Arlington National Cemetery said his only daughter apologizes to anyone she’s offended — especially soldiers.
The controversial Facebook photo shows Lindsey Stone with her mouth wide open and giving the finger near what appears to be the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a sign that reads: “Silence and Respect.”
“She’s totally apologetic. She apologizes to anybody she’s offended,” her father, Peter Stone, told me last night. “She was reacting, I guess, to the sign instead of the place and didn’t intend it to be what it turned out to be.
“She had a lack of judgment,” added her father, who learned of the controversy yesterday. “I think they were just being funny, which is sad. It’s not how she or the family feels by any means.”
The photo wound up in the blogosphere and has sparked a “Fire Lindsey Stone” Facebook page that had fetched more than 9,000 likes as of last night.
Stone and Jamie Schuh, the woman who snapped the photo, have been put on unpaid leave from their jobs at the Hyannis-based LIFE Inc. — a nonprofit that helps adults with special needs — while it investigates the incident.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the organization said the photo was taken last month when 40 residents and eight staff members visited Washington, D.C. The nonprofit said it learned of the photo, posted on Lindsey Stone’s personal Facebook page, Monday night.
Lindsey Stone, a 30-year-old single woman who lives with her parents, wasn’t home last night. Peter Stone said his daughter feels “terrible” about jeopardizing her job.
“She really enjoyed what she was doing,” said Stone, 61, a retired ironworker. “All her clients at work love her. To have her put something like this on her page, I just can’t believe it.
“The way I see her, and the way I’ve witnessed her for 30 years, is not at all what that photo shows,” he added.
Stone said he was “appalled” when he first saw the photo. “I certainly don’t condone anything like that,” he said.
When asked whether his daughter regrets the photo, Peter Stone said “very much so.”
Lindsey Stone and Schuh issued an apology last night.
“We never meant any disrespect to any of the people nationwide who have served this country and defended our freedom so valiantly. It was meant merely as a visual pun, intending to depict the exact opposite of what the sign said, and had absolutely nothing to do with the location it was taken or the people represented there,” the statement said.
Her dad said yesterday he didn’t think it was “meant to be a statement, that’s for sure.”
He added: “She’s just devastated. She’s all upset ... but there are ramifications to every action.”
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There's a very telling piece of information.
Liar. She made the mistake of thinking that the entire country thinks like the people in New England, and is stunned by the blowback. (Comments in NE papers are generally sympathetic to this woman...'what's the big deal?")
I have immediate family buried in Arlington, and I am beyond p*ssed at this skank. G-d deliver me from New England.
She's just upset at the negative effect it had on her employment, with no genuine regret over the action.
Considering the number of people who have had their lives destroyed over making a remark somebody decided was "racist", or for openly opposing gay marriage, I have no sympathy for this twerp.
“Lindsey Stone, a 30-year-old single woman who lives with her parents,”
This woman has been enabled by her own father to not learn to deal with life. She is still 30 and living at home, yet was gainfully employed. She is just daddy’s little princess and has no concept of any other element of life outside of her own being. His enabling her has greatly handicapped her and set her decades behind in being a self sustaining entity.
She is a fine example of why our electorate was to lazy to vote for Liberty and instead chose a lifeless existence provided to them big government.
No. THAT is an act of extreme arrogance. Going 65 in a 55 MPH zone is a lack of judgment.
I notice nowhere does anyone mention the word "responsible" or "responsibility." So typically American.
Thanks! I’ve sent this to everyone I know and posted on Facebook!
On the one hand, I’m very much in favor of “hire at will” employment laws, HOWEVER, this is going into a very dangerous direction... And we’ve already seen some of it being used by the militant left.
People should not be threatening her employer over this stupid stunt pulled by this girl, forcing them to fire her. As I mentioned, we’ve seen the hard left trying to do harm to Chick-Fil-A, due to the CEO’s personal, religious beliefs. We also saw in CA, the militant homosexual lobby going after the employers of people who donated to the traditional marriage campaign.
This is the method of the left, if someone disagrees with you, they’re not just wrong, they’re evil, and they must be destroyed and their lives ruined. It’s not something that decent people should be doing.
Mark
The fad for a lot of liberal young people is to act as edgy (insulting, hateful and immoral) attention whores these days.
Although liberal attention whoredom is a hit on your tee vee and your anti-American, whitey hating, homo college campus; it’s not so much in real life.
A lot of these people are incurring consequences that are ruining themselves and others. They are wracking up criminal records, addictions, broken relationships, life altering disease and mental illness.
This one got off easy if she just lost a job but learns from the mess she’s made to begin acting like a decent human being again.