Flag pin flap

I read the story in the Oct. 28 The Tampa Tribune about Trevor Keezor and his experience with Home Depot.

Since I don't know the whole story, I will just let you know of my extreme displeasure with The Home Depot and its store policy regarding patriotic and/or religious pins.

It seems it was OK, according to the paper, for Keezor to wear a flag pin with a portion of the flag pledge on it for the past year and never a word was spoken to him about it.

Suddenly, he is terminated for wearing this pin in spite of the apparent fact that the store manager had worn a non-approved pin on his apron.

I wonder if The Home Depot has any employees of the Muslim faith who, because of their religious beliefs, are required to wear a certain dress code that is not common to non-Muslims? If not, why not?

Don't faithful Muslims apply for employment at The Home Depot or are they turned away? And if there are Muslim employees, would they be required to remove their outfits?

I am not sure what religious beliefs Mr. Keezor has, as his pin didn't specify a Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Greco-Roman mythological god. The pin only referred to a nation of many individual states joined and inhabited by an indivisible population that survives today by the grace of the Great Creator.

I hope The Home Depot will reevaluate its position in this matter and help restore the faith that most citizens of the United States have in thinking this enterprise is truly part of the "American way."

David Campbell

Brooksville