I used to think that war was like a sporting event, in which two opposing armies would line up on opposite sides of a football field then run at each other and try to kill each other...and "war" never extended beyond that field.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- I used to think a mustache was just extended nose hair.— Dan
- When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.— Angie
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.— Sam
- I used to think that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football player.— Wendy