Tim Stanley's Blog

Tim is a Tulsa World journalist, husband and father of two who writes the World's Our Lives stories, #WW2 Veterans Remember series and Tulsa's Neediest Families. A native of Hope, Ark., Tim holds a master's in English/education from Harding University.

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WWII vets remember: Tank unit commander Larry Lantow was lone survivor of three WWII brothers

Lantow, a Bronze Star recipient, returned to Normandy in 1999 to see the graves of his younger brothers, Bob and Norman. A project is underway in Claremore to honor all of the Lantow brothers for their military service.

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Pearl Harbor survivor Allen Clinkscales of Tulsa dies

Clinkscales, a longtime vocal music teacher in Duncan and leader statewide in music education, was a Navy veteran of World War II, surviving the Pearl Harbor attack and the Battle of Midway.

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WWII vets remember: Roland Powell fought with segregated unit in the Philippines

Former Army Tech. Sgt. Roland Powell, who served alongside other black soldiers in helping liberate the Philippines, talks about his experiences in WWII.

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WWII vets remember: Owasso's Makoto Miyamoto fought with a Japanese-American unit

A second-generation Japanese-American, Makoto “Mike” Miyamoto of Owasso, now 91, is proud to have served his country in WWII, helping defeat an Axis alliance that included his family’s homeland of Japan.

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Our Lives: Wess Young, Tulsa Race Riot survivor, community activist

"They lost everything — except the human spirit. But he never talked about it in a bitter way. And he never wanted us to be afraid of history. He wanted us to embrace it, the persevering and surviving, the positive changes that came out of it. He was forever optimistic."

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Self-sacrificing Coweta Medal of Honor nominee remembered by family

Don Sloat’s siblings never tired of hearing stories about their brother from those who’d known him. ... But the story of what really had happened to the Coweta native — who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1970 — was a long time in coming.

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Okla. native tapped for Medal of Honor says he's humbled

The 18 wounds Bennie Adkins suffered in the battle responded well enough to treatment afterward. It was the kind you can’t see that took a little longer.

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The proposed title of the song, especially with teenagers being the target audience, was a little worrisome.

But Buddy Bruce persisted.

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Humble and gracious, Tulsan Billie Letts unchanged by later-in-life literary fame

Author of the bestseller 'Where the Heart Is' and other novels set in Oklahoma, Letts, a Tulsa native, died Saturday. She was 76.

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Our Lives: Former Oklahoma Eagle publisher Ed Goodwin Jr.

Edward Lawrence Goodwin Jr. died July 25. He was 78. A service is set for 11 a.m. Friday at Full Gospel Family Outreach Ministries under direction of Jack’s Funeral Home.

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Do you ever feel like you just want to scream? I do sometimes.

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OpenDoor Blog: Too big the mystery

“He looked out at the Pacific Ocean on night watch and saw that religions were too small to capture the mystery.” It's one sentence in the account of a man’s life.

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I’m pretty sure Isaiah Austin would tell you that if not for the big “why” in his life — if his was just the story of a guy persevering through trials — then it would really be a pretty sad story, and not one worth hearing about.

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Phillip Coon, WWII POW and Bataan Death March survivor, dies

A Sapulpa native and full-blood member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Coon, 95, spent three years as a Japanese prisoner of war.

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As a black-coffee kind of guy, I usually say no to sweetener and cream.