Wen I was 4 or 5, I kept on hearing on the radio about World War III, so I assumed for some time thereafter that there had been three world wars, and the third one ended a few years before I was born.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- Even though I knew about Roman numerals when I was younger, I thought that there was 11 world wars.Anon
- I used to believe that life was like a tv show and that the world ended when I died.— mortimer x
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- i used to believe that the world couldn't have possibly started before i was born.— emma
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern