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 once that gets him out in the  open, the Marines could blow his ass away."