-----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
>