In times of conflict it is re-assuring to note a child's viewpoint.
Little Melissa comes home from school & 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.
Whom 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 British 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 new found
pride..
'Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I have ever heard..'
'I know, ' Melissa says, 'and once that gets him out into the open,
the Royal Marines could shoot the b@5tard.'
