As I grew up, my father would tell me stories of his time in Viet Nam and would preface these stories with "Charlie...". I grew up thinking that one man named "Charlie" gave our US military hell!!!
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I used to believe that mushrooms in the grass grew if it was sunny and rained at the same time.— Ryan
- I thought there was no midnight in military time; instead, it’d be 24:00.— Enrico
- I used to believe bobby pins were named after my father.— Erin
- I used to believe only certain men grew beards, not all of them.— Shauna