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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.

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

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie’s flag herself.

If the sight of the American flag is offensive, one has to wonder why this idiot came to America in the first place, and why he or she is still here. Instead of coming here to enjoy and exploit the freedoms America provides, and then complaining about the very symbol of that freedom, why don’t you go back to your hellhole, third-world, flies-in-your-face, desert-dwelling, crappy country where you can enjoy the sight of less offensive things like starving children, murderous dictators and ebola. Jackass.

UPDATE: Many of you who emailed me the story also copied me on emails you sent to Kindred Hospital. Apparently they heard you loud and clear.

Kindred Hospital and its corporate bosses in Kentucky got a lesson in patriotism Wednesday.

After a thorough roasting in the blogosphere, Kindred officials decided to let hospital supervisor Debbie McLucas put an American flag back on her office wall. “We have invited the employee (McLucas) to put the flag back up,” Kindred said in a brief press release.

Good work!