Facebook Photo Of Woman At Tomb Of The Unknowns Sparks Outrage

[MADem]

209. Some people who are that age are younger in spirit than others.

I will believe her father. He came across as very credible.

Also, her employer, that fired her, has a nasty and longstanding reputation for treating their employees like shit and firing them after they've had to give the workers a pay raise too many. Then they hire untrained people at rock bottom wages and start the cycle anew. They don't deserve "praise" for using any old excuse to get rid of a twelve bucks an hour employee in exchange for someone working for eight.

I spent decades in the military. I have friends and relatives buried at Arlington. I think what this kid--and she's a kid, to my mind--did was dumb and certainly ill-advised but she doesn't deserve death threats or poutrage or hyperbolic hyperventilations about how this is the Worst Possible Thing Ever. If Sarah Silverman did it, or Katt Williams, people would call it "edgy humor." Because an unknown does it, it's suddenly the crime of the century and Everyone Has To Be Very, VERY Upset About This Serious and Outrageous Affront.

The people who rest in Arlington died to defend our "freedoms" including the freedom to make an ass of oneself. I think some folks are getting just a bit too sanctimonious about this matter to suit me, and I'm an old fart who, in general, favors a certain amount of decorum.