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MANSFIELD, Texas—A North Texas woman has won her fight over patriotism at the workplace.
KTVT in Dallas reports that Debbie McLucas, the woman who was told to remove an American flag from her office at a Mansfield hospital, has since been allowed to re-hang the Stars and Stripes after a national outcry over the story.
McLucas comes from a military family. Before Memorial Day, she had hung a 3 foot by 5 foot flag in her office. But her supervisor – who is from another country—took it down, saying it was offensive.
KTVT’s report sparked such outrage that people flooded the hospital’s switchboards with complaints.
Wednesday night, McLucas told KTVT the hospital CEO gave her a call, apologizing.
The CEO invited McLucas to put the flag back up and said the issue was with the size of the flag, not what it symbolized.
But McLucas said that wasn’t the case when she was originally told to take it down.
”At no point was I afforded the opportunity -- [no one said,] ‘Hey Deb, could you get a one and a half by three and a half and hang it instead of hanging this three by five?’” McLucas told KTVT.
In the end, though, McLucas said she was pleased that so many fellow citizens spoke out about the issue.
“It just restored my faith in the American people,” she told KTVT
