At age five, I believed that the "Watergate" incident of the Nixon presidency was actually a gate that held back water, and that they could find no one to plug the holes, and that the entire nation would flood, ala' the story of the dutch boy and the dike. I was that the president would let so many people become overwhelmed by a flood. Ironic now, considering New Orleans.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- I was scared that if I peed too much, the toilet would flood— scarlett
- I used to think that New Orleans was in Los Angeles, because I'd seen addresses written "New Orleans, LA".— Hilary
- I used to think that running cross-country meant you ran across the entire nation!Anon
- i used to always wonder how one national guard could always guard the entire nation.— karen ellis