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9/11: Twenty-one years

Today is the 21st anniversary of the Islamist attacks on America. We pause to remember the husbands and wives, sons and daughters who died that day and in the years since in the pursuit of the evil movement that perpetrated the attacks. Please take a moment to remember Jayesh Shah,...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2022 9:06 PM

Remembering 9/11, 16 years on

I'm late this year taking time to remember the Islamist attacks on America and the husbands and wives, sons and daughters who died that day and in the years since in the pursuit of the evil movement that perpetrated the attacks. My thoughts have been occupied much of the day...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2017 11:28 PM

9/11, 15 years on

Time flies. The five-year-old boy I took to the zoo -- and kept away from the TV and the radio -- the day the terrorists flew planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center is on his way back to college after a short visit home. Sonia Shah was...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2016 8:22 PM

Remembering 9/11, 13 years on

Take a moment to remember University of Tulsa and Memorial High School graduate Jayesh Shah, who worked on the 103rd floor of the north tower for Cantor Fitzgerald, and to pray for his family, who deeply miss their brother, son, husband, and father. This 2002 story from the Houston Chronicle...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2014 8:12 PM

Remembering 9/11 and Benghazi

Twelve years ago today, America was attacked by Islamofascist fanatics. Thousands of innocent people lost their lives, tens of thousands were injured, hundreds of thousands were left orphaned or widowed or deprived of a dear friend. We particularly remember today a graduate of Tulsa's Memorial High School, Jayesh Shah, who...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2013 3:25 PM

Remembering 9/11 and the enemy that still hates us and our freedom

I don't remember exactly what I was doing this morning at 7:46 a.m. Central time, eleven years to the minute after Islamic radicals flew a large commercial jetliner into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but I was probably scrambling to find a working copier to copy the...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2012 10:43 PM

The 9/11 7-Eleven; the blocked <em>Path to 9/11</em>

While we again mourn the dead and recall the shock of 9/11/2001, we mustn't forget the path that led to 9/11 -- the Islamist preachers and philosophers who inspired the attacks, the jihadis who carried them out, and the mixture of immigration laxity and political correctness that enabled the attacks...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2011 4:36 PM

9/11 10th anniversary commemorations in Tulsa

As on each previous anniversary of the September 11, 2001, jihadi attacks on America, Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th and Cincinnati, will mark the day with a choral requiem, beginning at 8:46 a.m., the time when the north tower of the World Trade Center was hit. This year, the Trinity Choir...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 9, 2011 12:59 PM

Tulsa 9/11 Remembrance Service

My apologies for posting this so late, but perhaps a few of you who work downtown will see this early enough to attend. (Postdated to remain at top until the service begins.) As it has every year since 2002, Trinity Episcopal Church at 5th & Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa will...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2009 8:46 AM

Remembering 9/11/2001

The presidential campaign and city politics churn along, but it's important to take time to remember what happened seven years ago today: The tragic deaths of the innocent, trapped in buildings and in airplanes, the heroic efforts of police officers, firefighters, and the men of Flight 93, the family members...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2008 5:54 PM