Woman asked to remove American flag from office
by T LamonteFriday May 29, 2009, 10:59 AM
Just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a woman from Arlington, Texas, hung the American flag in a shared office space at Kindred Hospital. Debbie McLucas' husband and sons served in the military, and her daughter is currently serving as a medic in Iraq.
Last Friday, McLucas' boss at the hospital informed her that one of her coworkers found the flag offensive and she had to take it down. McLucas said the offended coworker came to the United States from Africa 14 years ago. Hospital administrators also said some patients' families and visitors had also complained about the flag.
"It is more than I can even fathom, that you would find the American flag offensive, in America," McLucas said.
After McLucas' story sparked a national controversy, hospital officials told her she could put the flag back up. "The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized," hospital officials said in a statement this week.
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