From a reader - be sure you get to the end.......
Sweet 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 then once he's out in the open, the Marines could blow his ass away!"
Posted by Neal (Nukevet) at January 28, 2003 12:52 PM | TrackBackSniff,...I really love that sentiment. Such a smart little girl, who says the next generation isn't up to it?
Posted by: puggs on January 28, 2003 01:52 PMI'm so glad I swallowed my Mountain Dew before I read that. Do you have any idea how much pain Mountain Dew causes as it passes through the nasal passages?
Posted by: Eichra Oren on January 28, 2003 03:27 PM