Valentine's Day
Little David came home from first grade and told his father they learned
about the history of Valentine's Day.
"Since Valentine's day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," he asked,
"will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"
David's father thought a bit, then said "No, I don't think God would get
mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," David said.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?", his father asked in shock.
"Well," David said, "I thought if a little American Jewish boy could have
enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think we're not all
bad, and 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 swelled and he looked at his boy with newfound pride.
"David, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," David said, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines
could blow the shit out of him."
