How 'bout reporting on something we don't already know

Five Who Found Faith: A USA Weekend piece about faith in the military.

It is said there are no atheists in foxholes. In a literal sense, of course, that isn't the case; the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is an active, online resource for non-religious people in the military. Still, the presence of faith is strong in the armed services, especially in wartime.

Seems like the bigger news story, then, would be of those "Atheists in foxholes". Why not report on the atheists, the freethinkers, the agnostics? Since when do news agencies report on "some guy getting up, driving to work, working eight hours, then driving home"? The news is there to report on the sensational; the guy who causes a 20 car pile-up on the way to work...and they don't often care about anything but the accident. So what's with reporting on the beliefs of the majority? There's no news there. I'd say that the rate of belief in the military is higher than in the general population, so that likely puts it at higher than 95%. Stories on the minority less than 5% would seem to be much more newsworthy. But that's just my take on it.

Once the gunfire started, I prayed and never stopped. Then I was shot in the knee.

Perhaps taking cover would have been a better course of action?