American flag allowed

OSHKOSH - The flap over this American flag has ended.

Dawn Price and her husband Charlie, an Army veteran, have an American flag on display in a window in their Brookside Apartment.

Earlier this week the property's manager, Midwest Realty Management told the couple to take it down or get out.

Just 2 days later the company set up a compromise which allowed the flag to stay if it moved to a rear window.

Price say's she isn't surprised "I know that they've been bombarded by phone calls emails faxes that really changed their words."

Then the company had another change of heart on Thursday and decided to let the flag stay exactly where it is.

"It's a relief. It really is a relief. I know how much that flag means to my husband." said Price.

Property Manager Randy Rich says the company wanted to work with the Prices, but he admits public pressure also played a role in the decision.

Rich says the company has received more than 3 thousand phone calls and more than 4 thousand emails.

He said "the majority of them are very demeaning, life threatening, talking about everything from hoping our employees will die to our kids getting cancer."

Rich shared some of those emails with FOX 11.

One person wrote: "You are going to evict someone for displaying an American flag during Memorial Day? Shame on you for dishonoring a veteran."

Another email said: "I will be putting a boycott on your rentals. I will be telling anyone and everyone I know not to rent from you."

"This has nothing to do with patriotism...obviously because of all the support and all the feedback we're getting, we're modifying our procedures and policies so we can try to please everyone." said Rich.

Price says she's happy to keep her flag where it is, but that's not her main goal. "The big picture is getting the Act amended so everyone can display the American flag."

The Act is the federal law that says no residential real estate association can stop someone from flying the American flag but it doesn't apply to renters. Rich says he'll help Price get the law amended. "We can say it's a law so we have to allow it and we would be fine with that."

Both sides say they are just glad to a chaotic situation has now been resolved.