Susie 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?'
Susie's father says, 'No, God would not get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?'
'Osama Bin Laden,' she says.
Her father asks in shock, 'Why Osama Bin Laden?'
'Well,' she says, 'I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might think that we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little, and if other kids sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start telling everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore.'
Her father's heart swells. 'Susie, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard.'
'I know,' Susie says. 'And once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could blow the shit out of him.'
