When I was five or six, the United States was engaged in the First [Persian] Gulf War. However, in general conversation my parents only ever referred to it as the "Gulf War" which led me to believe that the United States was fighting Saddam Hussein in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida. I was deathly afraid that Saddam and Company were going to invade the United States and enslave us all.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- 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 believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- Until I was about 13, I believed that the Gulf War took place near the Gulf Of Mexico.... — D
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon