In pre-school, receiting the Pledge of Alleigance let me to believe that there was a very powerful man named Richard Stands ("and to the republic, for which it stands") who controlled the country, or possibly had the country founded as a gift to him.
A childhood belief about the pledge
others believed things like this
- I used to think "from which it stands" was "for Richard Stans".
— cobra - "...and to the Repulblic, sandwitches stands..."
— Shirley B. - for my first Internet year, i believe all the ".ca" sites stands for Calif State websites.— ray cheng
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- i used to believe that 'overseas' was a countryAnon
- I used to think each country was it's own planet.— erin clements