COME, FOLLOW ME! BY BISHOP RICHARD B. HIGGINS
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eet Peter Esterka, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brno (Chaplain, Lt. Col. USAF, retired) and “Pepek” (Monsignor Joseph Supa, Chaplain, Col, USAF, Retired), United States Air Force Chaplain Orientation Course 74-B. There were 25 of us in the Air Force Chaplain Basic Orientation Course 74-B, and as we settled into the classroom that November morning at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama I looked around the room. Seated directly across from me was none other than “Pepek” from my days at the Lateran University, in Rome. The Communists arrived in 1948. They reformed the educational system and promptly closed the Bishop’s School, which Peter had been attending, and removed the Jesuits. All children were obliged to attend school
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