Thread: A little girl's valentine

Little Melissa came home from first grade and told 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 asked, "will God get mad at me for
giving someone a valentine?"

Melissa's father thought a bit, then said "No, I don't think God would get
mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"

"Osama Bin Laden," she answered

"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asked in shock.

"Well," she replied, "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 swelled and he looked at his daughter with newfound
pride.

"Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."

"I know," Melissa said, "and once that gets him out in the open, the
Marines
could blow the crap out of him."