A: Mom, have you heard of the Angel of the Battlefield?
Me: No, I haven't.
A: I can't believe you haven't heard of the Angel of the Battlefield!!!
Me: Well, you can tell me about them ...
A: It's a she. A girl. And do you know what she would do?
Me: No.
A: She would go out into the battlefields of the Civil War - you know, the war, when the United States fought the United States? - and [starting to get a bit choked up] she would find injured soldiers and take them to a tent and cure them!
Me: That is pretty amazing.
A: No, I mean right in the war! Like, with cannons firing!! And rifles!! And she just went in there [choking up again] to save people!
Me: Did you read about this at school?
A: Yes, I read about it at school. That's the really cool thing about the Magic Treehouse books - they mix things that really happened with made up stories.
Me: I'm just impressed that you guys know what the Civil War was.
A: Um, it was, like, only the biggest civil war in one country ever. Of course we've heard of it.
J: Yeah, Mom - National Geographic?
Me: Ok, fine - it's all right for me to be impressed that you guys know so much about the Civil War. Do you know anything about the War of 1812?
J: Um .... maybe a bit?
Me: Right. We'll be remedying that.
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