----- Original Message -----
From: Peter M. Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:21 PM
To: Feder1, Todd; CharlesJeremiah
Subject: Fw: David's Valentine
 

> >>>   >Where is the Love?
> >>>   >
> >>>   >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."
> >>>
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