Top Secret

        There were some special soldiers who were sent on a Top Secret Mission. This

mission took them to a foreign city in an effort to rescue some of their fellow

citizenswho were stranded there. The soldiers on the mission were not given any of

thenames, photos or addresses of those who were stranded to accomplish the

mission.They were instead given a very unusual method of accomplishing their goal.

        The soldiers were instructed to walk around the city dressed in clown suits. They

were also each given a trumpet. They were told to walk about the city streets, alleys

and parks wearing these clown suits and blowing the trumpets very loudly. One could

only imagine the ridicule they must have endured from the occupants of that city.

Nonetheless these faithful soldiers carried out their orders.

        The thing was that the soldiers also had been told that the people they were there

to rescue would recognize the sound of their trumpets and so respond. The plan was

to give a clear sound of the trumpet so they could come out and identify themselves

to the soldiers and then they could be taken to an extractions point.

All the other citizens of that place thought the clowns were foolish and the sounds

of the trumpets did not mean anything to them. They made fun of the clowns. Some

even tried to pass city ordinances against the clowns. People physically abused some

of the clowns. A few of them were even killed carrying out their mission.

        Among those people that were supposed to be rescued some decided they

wanted to stay where they were even though they recognized the call of the

trumpets. They did not believe it when the soldiers told them that the air force was

getting ready to reduce the city to ashes in a very short time. They missed their

opportunity to be rescued.