“Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American barbarian aggression against our country and our people. We appreciate your deeply feelings towards us.”

Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.

(via minnpost)

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    Wow… I would had been pissed.
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    definitely click to read the link about the original letter
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