Until about the NINTH grade, I believed that the Gulf War happened in the Gulf of Mexico, because until then, I hadn't learned about any other gulfs, and hadn't actually thought it out to see my error...
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- Until I was about 13, I believed that the Gulf War took place near the Gulf Of Mexico.... — D
- I was very young during the first gulf war and I thought that it was fought in the gulf of mexico.— Kay
- I used to belive that the Gulf war was actually the Golf war and the people hit each other with golf clubs...— golfgirl
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- I thought if someone hadn't passed the Law of Gravity, we would all be floating around in space.— Trudee
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim