Yes, I vaguely remember when we were at the Little School, school would start at 8 a.m. with an hour of Bible class. The session would start with singing, and sometimes we would sing, out of courtsey, the national anthems of the various persons represented in the student body, which included the Star Spangled Banner for the U.S. students, O Canada for the Canadians and also God Save the Queen for those from New Zealand or Australia. Also we learned to sing the national anthem of our host country, El Salvador: "De la paz en la dicha suprema, siempre noble fue El Salvador, fue obtenerla su eterno progreso, conservarla en su gloria mayor" or something similar to that, which is to say: From the peace in the supreme happiness, the always noble El Salvador strove to obtain eternal progress and to conserve its greatest glory" of something similar to that. So according to that peace should result in supreme happiness. Ok, fine.
In high school about once a week we would be called on to do the pledge of the allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, although probably Libby did not participate in that because she belongs to the religious cult of Jehovah's Witness, so she can claim a conscientious objector status for her citizenship rights.
And on the 15 of September, the independence day for El Salvador, we were asked to wear blue and white and to sing the national anthem of the country and march around the school or something, I forget exactly what we did, just whatever they want us to do. It
