Like many others, as a child in World War II Australia, I thought wars were fought in some kind of huge arena fitted out with hills, trenches and towns, with huge scoreboards at each end. The side with the highest score won, and you could probably buy tickets to watch from the sides, like Sydney Cricket Ground. Then the news that our Cruiser HMAS Sydney had sunk the Italian Cruiser Bartolemeo Colleoni ruined my theory. I had seen the great "Sydney" in Sydney harbour, and nothing that size, let alone two of them with miles of water between them could fit into my imaginary arena, and still leave room for all the other things going on.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- As a child i was under the impression that the huge power station chimneys were cloud makers.— scruffyoik
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- i used to believe that humpty dumpty lived in our towns water towerAnon
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- Even though I knew about Roman numerals when I was younger, I thought that there was 11 world wars.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that the things in my room became smaller but it was me who was growingAnon