When I was somewhere between 7 and 10 we had to read a book about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan (this was in the 80s, not the 50s). The book was written from the perspective of the Japanese, and we were suppossed to be learning not to be ethnocentric (which is great). However, somehow it escaped me that my own country had dropped the bomb (maybe I'd have been more scared if I'd known we did something like that). I also didn't get it that atomic bombs hadn't been used since WWII. For weeks I'd stare at the ceiling of my bedroom waiting for a bomb to fall through and nuke me.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that there were no bombs or casualties in England in World War One!— History person
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits— lala
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy