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 named after 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 sh*t out of him.
2006-08-21
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