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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 newfound 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." |
