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Mansfield Flag Controversy Draws Worldwide Outrage
CBS 1 TV ^ | May 28, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 05/28/2009 6:32:48 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: memorialday; oldglory; purge; workplace
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If I said wht I think, I'd be banned for sure.
1 posted on 05/28/2009 6:32:48 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Correct response here would be “Come And Get It!”


2 posted on 05/28/2009 6:34:33 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: ladtx

She should put up her Blue Star Flag.


3 posted on 05/28/2009 6:35:08 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

She needs to be canned.

If that person is in a position of authority (such as supervisor), she has shown that she clearly has very poor judgement in making an army mom remove an American flag before Memorial Day. A poor judgement of the worst caliber.

If she cannot see why that is horribly wrong, then her skills in other areas are also questionable.


4 posted on 05/28/2009 6:35:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

So the foreign-born boss found it “offensive?”

Amazing - what are we doing to ourselves importing such people as citizens?

Time to kick her butt out of the USA


5 posted on 05/28/2009 6:37:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Turret Gunner A20

“McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.” To me this is the gist of it. It frost me when people come to this country and then try to tell us what to do and how to do it. I wonder why we don’t know the name of this “supervisor.”


6 posted on 05/28/2009 6:37:12 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Red in Blue PA

The supervisor has only been in the country fourteen years, originally from Africa........Send her back.


7 posted on 05/28/2009 6:37:25 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: Turret Gunner A20
McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.
8 posted on 05/28/2009 6:37:36 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

I had a flag up in my office and took a lot of sh!t for it. and i worked in a real mickey mouse operation.
talk about being in the lions den.


9 posted on 05/28/2009 6:39:19 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: La Lydia

“I wonder why we don’t know the name of this “supervisor.”

Mohammed Akbar


10 posted on 05/28/2009 6:39:21 AM PDT by Augustinian monk
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Could someone get pictures of those who “were offended” by the American flag? They are to be pitied. However, it would help to ‘pity’ them more if we could see their pictures.


11 posted on 05/28/2009 6:40:26 AM PDT by yoe
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What is the name of this alien POS? If possible, put her on a boat and send her back to wherever she came from as she has no reason to be in the USA.

Wonder if she is from Kenya??

Vince


12 posted on 05/28/2009 6:42:40 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: hoosiermama

Maybe the supervisor was Obama’s aunt?


13 posted on 05/28/2009 6:43:17 AM PDT by Patriot2A
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To: yoe

Curious why the name of the “offended” wasn’t published. After all, the MSM went all out investigating Joe The Plumber, so at least try to interview the B**** and get her “side of the story.”

But of course, if this was a white male who allegedly made some racial comment, the media would be camped outside his home and office.


14 posted on 05/28/2009 6:45:03 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Mouton

PING!!! These f^&%ING boatpeople come here in droves to escape the misery of their countries, just to act the same when they come here. You can take the tiger our of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the tiger. SEND HER ASS BACK TO KENYA!


15 posted on 05/28/2009 6:45:11 AM PDT by Patriot2A
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To: Patriot2A

Up date on side bar has more information. Patriot won!


16 posted on 05/28/2009 6:46:51 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

How much you wanna bet Ms. McLucas receives a “downsizing” pink slip?


17 posted on 05/28/2009 6:47:46 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Turret Gunner A20

http://www.kindredmansfield.com/homepage.asp


18 posted on 05/28/2009 6:48:16 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Turret Gunner A20
What should be offensive to all Americans is that this woman's flag was THROWN ON THE GROUND by the “offended” 14 year resident of the USA supervisor.

That is like me being offended by someones “Che” shirt, so I throw a brick at them.

The response is exponentially more offensive than the so called provocation.

19 posted on 05/28/2009 6:52:41 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: Turret Gunner A20
If I said wht I think, I'd be banned for sure.

Here is a notice for all lurkers and other people who think it is OK to have a US flag removed and thrown on the floor, because it is "offensive" to you.

Go back to your native country and stay there. Our military, which I also serve in, has been fighting to keep this country safe.

If you don't like it here and OUR flag offends you, get the H*** out and STAY out.

20 posted on 05/28/2009 6:53:18 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
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