A new billboard near the Air Force Academy is urging the academy to drop the words “so help me God” completely from its honor oath. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an organization that advocates for the separation of church and state in the military, had the billboard erected Nov. 6 at the corner of North Nevada Avenue and Garden of the Gods Road in Colorado Springs, a few miles from the academy. The billboard features an image of the officer’s oath signed by George Washington at Valley Forge in 1778, in which he pledges his loyalty to the United States against King George III, but does not contain an oath to a deity. The billboard reads, “This oath was good enough for George Washington. Why not the Air Force Academy?” After MRFF President Mikey Weinstein in October objected to the inclusion of the phrase “so help me God” in the academy’s honor oath, the academy...