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 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. 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, then Dick Cheney could shoot the
f****r."

smart girl

I thought this story was about ME!