Little Melissa comes home from 1st grade & 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. Whom 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 have ever heard.”

“I  know, ” Melissa says, “and once  that gets him out in the open, the Marines could shoot the bastard.”