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."
"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 with love and he looks at his
daughter with new found 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 his ass away
