Posted by Happy Valentines (198.81.17.44) on February 05, 2002 at 19:20:04:
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 Green
>Berets could blow the shit out of him."