When I was 10, there was a fireworks show outsie my house. I asked what was happening, and my sister told me that we were being bombed by iraqis. It scared the crap out for the rest of the night and I cried until my mom finally told me otherwise.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits— lala
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- My little sister's imaginary friend was Kit the talking car from that show Knight Rider.Anon