Little David comes home from first grade and tells his father that they learned about the history of Valentines Day. "Since Valentines Day is for a Christian saint and were Jewish," he asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"
Davids father thinks a bit, then says "No, I dont 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 were not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, hed love everyone a lot. And then hed start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didnt hate anyone anymore."
His fathers heart swells and he looks at his boy with newfound pride.
"David, thats the most wonderful thing Ive ever heard."
"I know," David says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines shoot him."
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