> 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

> Marines could blow the s--- out of him."