30 yr old woman gives finger to Arlington Cemetery-posts photo on facebook
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Lindsey Stone
Father ‘appalled’ by disrespectful Facebook pic
By Jessica Heslam | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
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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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