OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

 

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 Christians 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 pride 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 the shit out of him."