Happy Thanksgiving 2009

There are so many things to be thankful for here in the Cosmopolitan Capital of Indian Territory.  Personally, I first thank God and America’s founding fathers who followed their faith to these shores and built the most prosperous, charitable, just, and free society ever to exist in the human experience.  I thank all in military service for their sacrifices in defending freedom.  I thank my family; the six generations of Oklahomans that by hard work built personal profitability and provide for each other.

I thank Tulsa Today readers. Since 1996 we have talked here by e-mail, phone, at meetings and on the streets of Tulsa.   

Those thousands of daily communications small and large discussions with occasional rants and raves have made us better reporters and the publication a better reflection of our community.  I am grateful for all who have helped program, photograph, write, edit and produce this interactive independent news service.  Some are now long gone to other careers, but I remember each and thank them for their important contributions.  We would not exist without them and loyal advertisers.

Come to think about it, I am also grateful this Thanksgiving for food and football – including my personal choice for the best coach in college football history, Bob Stoops, Oklahoma University.  Ok fine, so Tulsa University and Oklahoma State University fans may disagree around the table this holiday, but that makes life interesting.  (I am also a Minnesota Vikings fan, but that is a story for another time.)

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