One of the seemingly stock stories on TV news features is that of a local veteran attending college. And, in fact this is a common occurrence just as the fact of our active duty personnel piling up college credits when and where they can.
Not long ago a Special Forces trooper was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan and was back in the states until his next deployment. In one of the courses he had a professor who was a vowed atheist, a member of the ACLU and Not In Our Name, an organization founded in 2002 to protest the U.S. government's course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (This organization was disbanded in 2008).
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and raised his voice for all to hear and flatly stated: "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed: "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down to the last couple of minutes when a soldier wearing a green beret got out of his chair, went up to the professor and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform.
The soldier went back to his seat and sat there silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually regained consciousness and was noticeably shaken. He looked at the soldier and asked: "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The man with the green beret and Special Forces and Ranger tabs on his uniform calmly replied: "God was too busy today protecting America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. So, He sent me."
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