Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag

MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) ―
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.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing."

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Would you like some cheese to go with your whine?

floridafun wrote:keeping in mind this happened in the great and proudly confederate-minded sessionist-minded state of texas, my first curiosity was..WHICH american flag was hung?

meta4 wrote:This is an example of why I'm considering turning the Shindex feature off, because whoever-it-was probably didn't comprehend the comment and notice the smiley pirate icon. Jeez people lighten up...

LTRT wrote:

meta4 wrote:This is an example of why I'm considering turning the Shindex feature off, because whoever-it-was probably didn't comprehend the comment and notice the smiley pirate icon. Jeez people lighten up...

Or just maybe this moderator thing has gone to your head, don't you have some real work to do?

(for the record it wasn't me!)

floridafun wrote:keeping in mind this happened in the great and proudly confederate-minded sessionist-minded state of texas, my first curiosity was..WHICH american flag was hung?

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

Kroman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

He thinks the Shindex rating is like a golf score. The lower the better.

meta4 wrote:

Kroman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

He thinks the Shindex rating is like a golf score. The lower the better.

... and You have a customized avatar devoted to bman.

meta4 wrote:

Kroman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

He thinks the Shindex rating is like a golf score. The lower the better.

... and You have a customized avatar devoted to bman.

Bman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Kroman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

He thinks the Shindex rating is like a golf score. The lower the better.

... and You have a customized avatar devoted to bman.

I do feel extra special ...Kroman LOVES me ...

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:

Bman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Kroman wrote:

meta4 wrote:

Bman wrote:The lady in the quote sniffles and says "I wonder if those over there are doing this for nothing" ... maybe she should ask President Bush about his war in Iraq. I am sure this comment will raise my shindex.

Raise...?? which direction on the number line are you heading?

He thinks the Shindex rating is like a golf score. The lower the better.

... and You have a customized avatar devoted to bman.

I do feel extra special ...Kroman LOVES me ...

Maybe you two should civil union each other???

Aggie Transplant wrote:

floridafun wrote:keeping in mind this happened in the great and proudly confederate-minded sessionist-minded state of texas, my first curiosity was..WHICH american flag was hung?

Gotta disagree with you on your "confederate-minded" comment about Texas. I don't see that at all in Houston, nor do I see it in trips back to Aggieland in College Station, trips to Austin to visit my brother, or to San Antonio to visit my brother-in-law. We lived in Mississippi for a year back in the late seventies, and you would see Confederate flags everywhere.

I would have also disagreed with the comment about "secessionist-minded", but then I remembered Governor Goodhair's comments on Tax day.