Ex - POW:

Praise for the minor seminaries....

"Spiritually reinforced, I as able to withstand six years in a communist prison in North Vietnam."

He credits the:

" .. the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Seminary system ...

For all:

"..My vocation was neither for the religious life or the priesthood...

Yet, in his seminary years:

"The time spent was not a waste to me nor to Mother Church...."

Snippets from Mr. Richard A. Stratton's "Letter to the Editor" -- the Homiletic & Pastoral Review December 2010.