At some celebration commemorating the end of WWII when I was about 4 or 5 we had a street party. I was very proud of my grandfather who had driven tanks in the war, and half way through the dinner I stood on the table and shouted as loud as I could, 'EVERYBODY! My Grandad won the War!'
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I similarly thought that "Proud Mary" included the lyrics "pumped a lot of tanks down in New Orleans."— Larry
- Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.Anon
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon