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Post by JR on Nov 21, 2012 19:15:54 GMT -6
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Post by terrilee on Nov 21, 2012 19:21:09 GMT -6
JR
IF she didnt have a mental health break down
i agree whole heart.
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Post by JR on Nov 21, 2012 19:27:03 GMT -6
There's something wrong here for sure Terrilee but it's not mental illness. Her dad said he couldn't figure it out and said this is now what the family and she is all about? So what/who's to blame for a person who could even think in the slightest that what they did was a joke?
Something went wrong at "their" home while she was growing up IMO and it wasn't respect for the brave and fallen.
I was eating a banana when I saw this and now I'm not sure anything is going to stay on my stomach for a bit now.
I just had a new number one dumbest person on my list and I think she'll stay there.
JR
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Post by jct842 on Nov 21, 2012 20:03:18 GMT -6
She don't have anything on jane fonda, I still believe hanoi jane is and was the worst piece of human garbage to surface in my life time.
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Post by richardthescooter3 on Nov 21, 2012 22:12:42 GMT -6
Her action showed that she has no respect to the brave men women that gave their all. Maybe I'm old fashion but, when I hear the national anthem I tear up, knowing the price that was paid to keep us free.
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Post by justbuggin2 on Nov 21, 2012 23:00:13 GMT -6
unfortunately we have people that dont respect those that came before them and what others have done for our nation she will one day need someone to help her and i hope that the people remenber what kind of person she is and let her figure out for her self
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Post by wolfhound on Nov 22, 2012 5:49:38 GMT -6
I agree with all of you on this. I seem to recall that I read that she and her friend were drunk and pranking. A few months in the cooler might change
her attitude. Unfortunately there are many in this divided country that share her attitude.
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Post by JR on Nov 22, 2012 6:28:18 GMT -6
Latest on the story:
A Massachusetts woman who posted a controversial photo on Facebook of herself at Arlington National Cemetery with her middle finger raised has lost her job due to controversy over the picture.
A Plymouth, Mass., woman whose "clowning around" photo at Arlington National Cemetery became the focus of online furor after she posted it on Facebook has resigned her job due to the controversy.
Lindsey Stone, a Plymouth, Mass., resident, posted a photo of herself on Facebook with her middle finger raised and pretending to shout next to a sign asking for "silence and respect" near the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. The photo was taken by a co-worker, Jamie Schuh, when the two were on a business trip to Washington, D.C., last month.
The posting ignited an online furor that included a "Fire Lindsey Stone" page on Facebook. Stone apologized through her father, Peter Stone, according to a Washington, D.C., TV station. Her father said she was clowning around and was reacting to the sign and not Arlington Cemetery.
According to the Boston Herald, Stone has resigned from the Cape Cod nonprofit, LIFE Inc., that she worked for and her resignation has been accepted. In a posting on its Facebook page, LIFE Inc., said both Stone and Schuh were no longer employees of the nonprofit.
"We deeply regret any disrespect to members of the military and their families," the LIFE Inc. post said. "The incident and publicity has been very upsetting to the learning disabled population we serve."
Both Stone and Schuh had been placed on unpaid leave while LIFE Inc., which helps adults with special needs, investigated.
The Boston Herald quoted her father as saying: "She's not happy at all. She's just devastated. She had no idea that she was going to hurt anybody. It was never her intention."
Doesn't matter Wolf to me if she was sloshed. I've pulled a few of those myself and never did any idea like this cross my mind to do for any reason. How could anyone think this was a prank that could be funny?
I'm one who reads between the lines, (sometimes good, sometimes bad) and her father's statement of "she had no idea" tells me that the very respect she should have had was not taught to her while as a child growing up. Is it her family's fault? Nope but on the same token somewhere along the line she wasn't taught or learned that those brave people who are laid to rest that gave the ultimate sacrifice for all (including her) are due the utmost respect that anyone can give.
Even worse to do it to the brave soldier that we don't even know who is? This has truly upset me.
Also why hasn't facebook removed it? Why would they allow or support such a shameful thing?
JR
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Post by wolfhound on Nov 22, 2012 8:13:57 GMT -6
I agree with you, JR. Back in my drinking days I did some pretty stupid things but nothing like this. I was raised to respect the flag and to respect
those who served, and to love my country. So many of my family have served and at least 3 who have retired from the service and 2 more who are making
careers of the service, one serving in South Korea and the other in Afghanistan. You and I come from a different environment and were raised to respect
those around us, those who served, and our country. Ons suspects that she was expressing her personal opinion and as a result is paying for her lack of respect. Facebook? I too wonder.
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Post by buford1488 on Nov 22, 2012 8:51:43 GMT -6
sorry but in my world you cant be sorry for something you already done. alot of my family members died in Vietnam and Korea ......so i will stoop to her level and give her the finger!!!!!!!!
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Post by justbuggin2 on Nov 22, 2012 20:42:44 GMT -6
this is another good reason i don't use facebook,tweeter and the like if you are take insecure of your self that you need to post your everyday life out there for everybody to see you better think about what you put up on the net
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Post by dudley on Nov 23, 2012 6:13:47 GMT -6
Chances are she was at the cometary because she does have respect.you don't end up at Arlington as you take the shortcut to the mall.
How many times have people taken pictures of themselves doing what a sign says not to?
I'm sure she was disrespecting the sign and not the soldier, and her only real problem was poor judgement and Facebook.
Now she is jobless in a bad economy and had her picture and name spread all over the Internet and been vilified in the press. Way overkill, and irresponsible IMHO.
I'm sure her family and children are suffering for it as well.
Dumb A's should be punished by the people close to them not the national media or judgemental strangers.
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Post by JR on Nov 23, 2012 7:16:56 GMT -6
Dumb A's should be punished by the people close to them not the national media or judgemental strangers
We need to remember she's the "one" who put herself in the position of being judged when she put in on Facebook for the whole wide world to see.
Chances are she was at the cemetary because she does have respect.you don't end up at Arlington as you take the shortcut to the mall.
If she had any respect she would have never considered such action and since you say she knew where she was at then by your own words she has condemned herself to what she has done. This place is hallowed ground, I have commrads buried in this place that died for this country and "her".
I'm sure she was disrespecting the sign and not the soldier, and her only real problem was poor judgement and Facebook
The sign was placed there to help honor this soldier and everything she done was disrespectful and her problem started there due to her lack of morales. Her poor judgement started at this very moment and was only amplified by the Facebook thing.
So how does one do something like this which is disgusting to start with and then think it's a joke and then go put it on a worldwide thing like Facebook? Poor judgement? I think not, IMO lack of feeling, character and morales.
A cemetary of ANY kind is not a place to do something like this and then put it on the worlwide Facebook thinking it's funny?
NOT A DAMN THING FUNNY ABOUT IT!
BTW who's going to punish her? She's 30 years old! You're going to tell me a 30 year old doesn't know any better than this?
Also as a person who was working at a place that assits adults with disabilities makes this even more outrageous. Where is the morales of right and wrong here?
Look at the position she put her own employer in and their response:
This photograph in no way reflects the opinions or values of the LIFE organization, which holds our nation’s veterans in the highest regard. We are proud to have veterans serving on our staff and board of trustees, and we value their service. The men and women who have selflessly fought and sacrificed their lives to protect the rights and lives of Americans deserve our utmost respect and gratitude. We are acutely aware that this photo has done a disservice to veterans and we are deeply saddened that it was taken and shared in a public medium
So lets get one thing clear, she's being judged by the very median that she thought was so funny to use and posted it there for her to be judged by. She with her partner who seems to have been able to slip out of the picture here are now finding out the real value of how "RESPECTFUL" people feel.
Somewhere in her raising something was missed or forgotten. Now at 30 years of age she's learned something and it took the very audience she posted it to to teach her.
If her I would seriuosly consider moving and changing my name
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Post by wolfhound on Nov 24, 2012 5:58:36 GMT -6
Well said, JR, well said.
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Post by mauiboy on Nov 25, 2012 0:55:51 GMT -6
I find her actions utterly disgusting, but she has the right to freedom of speech and expression. She has the right to do that, we have the right to think she is not a very nice person for doing so. The flip side of people having rights is trusting them to exercise them appropriately. Obviously she didn't in our view (and pretty much everyone else's view). Irrespectively of what country and what war, all law abiding soldiers deserve our respect. Many soldiers over the years have given their lives to protect her right to be so disrespectful. An irony obviously lost on her.
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