My mother - an Australian citizen - went to school in Texas in the 60s and caused a big stir because she wouldn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance (because why would she? She wasn't American).
exactly, I wasn't an American citizen and had no interest in becoming one so standing for the pledge seemed a little bit too much, although I suspect knowing my anti-authoritarian tendencies I might have refused anyway. But at any rate had to be ready to defend myself anyway.
