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 newfound 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
crap out of him!"

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