Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells
her father that
they
learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since
Valentine's Day is
for
a Christian saint and we're Jewish," she asks, "will
God get mad at me
for
giving someone a valentine?" Melissa's father thinks a
bit, then says,
"No,
I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to
give a valentine
to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock.
"Well," she says, "I
thought that if a little American Jewish girl could
have enough love to
give
Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe
we're not all
bad,
and maybe start loving people a little bit. "And if
other kids saw
what I
did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a
lot. And then
he'd
start going all over the place to tell everyone how
much he loved them
and
how he didn't hate anyone anymore."
Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter
with newfound
pride.
"Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever
heard."
"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in
the open, the
Marines
could blow the shit out of him." :D
