FW: Happy Valentines Day

-----Original Message-----
From: Harris, Margaret
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:07 AM
To: Parks, Kim
Subject: FW: Happy Valentines Day

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 shit out of him
<