A conversation with the neighbor next door occurring around the late 60's has always stood out. At some point my siblings and I mentioned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and she piped up saying how horrible it was that Japan dropped the atomic bomb on Pearl Harbor. We were incredulous and pointed out that it was the United States that first developed the atomic bomb and used it twice on Japanese cities.
She just kept saying the United States would never have been the first to use nuclear weapons and Japan used the atomic bomb first at Pearl Harbor.
She would have been in her mid teens at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and late teens at the war's conclusion so it certainly isn't an issue of poor education.
Certainly people can misremember things, or believe in the supernatural and, assorted CTs. But this always seemed different. I've wondered at what point in her life her brain glommed onto this in the prior 20 years.
I also wonder whether studies have been done on such extremes of false memories. And this was an honestly held belief. Did this just indicate how powerful cognitive dissonance is in a few cases?
She just kept saying the United States would never have been the first to use nuclear weapons and Japan used the atomic bomb first at Pearl Harbor.
She would have been in her mid teens at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and late teens at the war's conclusion so it certainly isn't an issue of poor education.
Certainly people can misremember things, or believe in the supernatural and, assorted CTs. But this always seemed different. I've wondered at what point in her life her brain glommed onto this in the prior 20 years.
I also wonder whether studies have been done on such extremes of false memories. And this was an honestly held belief. Did this just indicate how powerful cognitive dissonance is in a few cases?
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