A couple of week agos Little David comes home from first
grade and tells his father that they learned about the history
of Valentine's Day.
"Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're
Jewish," he asks, "will God get mad at me for giving
someone a Valentine?"
David'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," David says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" his father asks in shock.
"Well," David says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish
boy 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."
His father's heart swells and he looks at his boy with new
found pride, "David, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever
heard."
"I know," David says, "and once that gets him out in the
open, the Marines could blow the shit out of him."