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 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, our Marines could blow his butt to Kingdom
Come."
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 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, our Marines could blow his butt to Kingdom
Come."
