When I was a kid I believed that if you were handling an America Flag and it touched the ground, the country lost a state. Just where the state went or who got it I didn't know, but God help the poor kid who was responsible.
A childhood belief about the pledge
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that America was a state near the one I live in.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I thought Albania was the state of AlabamaAnon
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania