Little Melissa comes home from 1st grade & 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. Whom 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 new found pride. 'Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I have ever
heard.'
'I know, ' Melissa says, 'and once that gets him out
in the open, the Marines could shoot the little fucker.'
