I thought a major general is more powerful than just a general (which still kind of makes sense to me)
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- When I was a child, I used to believe that my dad was the most powerful and strong man on earth. — LM
- I used to believe that "critical acclaim" meant that they liked it, BUT had some major problems with it, too.— Beth
- When I was a child I thought that dogs can see ghosts but now I think that they can sense disaster— Steven Altamirano