delta314
Registered User
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, the
> Marines
> could shoot the fucker."
> 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, the
> Marines
> could shoot the fucker."
