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When I was in third grade, we read about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. From then on, I was worried that the USA was going to nuke Canada, where I live.

Sammi
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I used to think that the world could end at any second from a nuclear attack and I would even lie awake at night, worrying and crying about it. When I asked my Dad if we could at least get some prior notice, and he said yes, that really reassured me, and the thought never bothered me again. Wierd--as long as we would get some prior notice, it didn't scare me as much.

Anon
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When I was about 7 I remember proudly telling my teacher that my grandparents and only one or two other people were the only ones who survived WW2.

Anon
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When I first heard of World War II, stupid enough, I didn't realise World War I existed before it, so I always say World War instead of pointing out which one. Then I got questioned in a history lesson "which one?" I answered grumpily, "world war II, DUH!!"

Anon
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when i was 5 my mum told me that hitler was an evil man, from then on i thought he was the devil

death bunny
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I used to think that World War II took place on a field in Los Angeles (where I lived). I thought that you could just go to where the war was going on and watch it through a chain-link fence.

Lili
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When I was little, I used to think that in wars the armies would fight by slapping each other with fake limbs (arms,legs). It makes sense, "army", "arm".

Spyke
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I used to believe that war was never fought by real human beings, but only by robots. I thought that people would never subject themselves to carnage of war, and would have inanimate robots fight the wars on their behalf as a proxy.

Chris
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When I was little I couldn't really concieve of how a war could be "won," so I figured that there must be a giant scoreboard on the battlefield somewhere, and when one side got enough points, then the war was over and everyone went home.

Anon
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When I was younger I thought that the Cold War was named "cold war" because of how cold it was in the Soviet Union compared to the United States. Anytime anyone talked about the Cold War, I would picture a bunch of soldiers and tanks in the middle of a gigantic blizzard.

Confused Missouri Kid
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I used to believe that a war was a real competition like a football match where a country would take a million or so people and let them shoot each other on some deserted piece of countryside until one country had nobody left, this meant I thought both World Wars were big tournaments like the World Cup, and Britain beat Germany in the final both times.

Chris
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I was into wars and battles when I was a child, I used to believe that if I was a pilot in the war and captured in Germany that I could blag my way out of it and say I loved Germany, I thought they would give
me my own german plane, then I would fly back to England and be free.

The Fluffster
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I used to believe that wars were won by one person. For instance if a soldier had a medal it was because he had personally won a war. This tied in nicely with my belief that you got to be a general by winning a war....

Iain
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Being young and naively honest, I didn't realize that war was based on deception: The suprise attack-the deception that there is no plan to attack. I thought that the war chiefs would call each other and arrange a meeting time for their soldiers to fight each other. Along with this was the belief that they had to use a vacant field as a battleground. This was how my mind made sense of the question, "How do they know when and where to fight?"

Anon
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i used to believe that the Civil war was called the Silver war. i also thought that there was a Gold war and Bronze war too.

tori
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This is actually a common belief among children. But, when I was little, I used to believe that the Cival War was called the Silver War.

Anon
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I used to believe that the "armory" was the "army" and the war was being fought there. I was afraid to walk on the street where the "armory" was located.

beverly finley
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I used to believe the gulf war was fought using exploding golf balls, or at least told people that. I'm not certain if I believed or not. I did think the gulf mentioned was spelt golf, though.

Anon
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I used to believe that in war it was very controled. I thought that the two armys fighting against eachother would line up and face eachother with only about 6 feet in between them. The governer or some head official would stand on the edge inbetween the 2 armys. He would say to one army "You may shoot" and one person would step forward and shoot someone from the other army. Then the governer would say to the other army "You may shoot" and they would keep taking turns shooting eachother untill all the soldiers on one side where dead. Yes as you can tell i wasnt very smart and i guess im still kind of dumb considering i just a moment ago forgot how to spell dead. hehe

Smarty
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When I was around 8 or 9 I used to believe that the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" (the first shot in the American Revolution) was the biggest home run ever in baseball.

Even though my dad is a history teacher...
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