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 alot."

"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've ever heard," he
says.

"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open,
the

Marines could shoot the f * cker."