Insensitive Use Of 9/11 Images

Insensitive Use Of 9/11 Images 

It has been only 18 years since America was attacked by muslim extremist intent on killing as many people as they can. On September 11, 2001, they killed 3,000 people. In today's society with all the technology, there were cameras all over the place in New York City on that day that captured just about everything that happened that day. We have seen images that are so horrifying  that until now it was only seen by the first responders or the Military. 

As of late, I have seen countless use of some of the images such as a man falling out of one of the towers to his death. I have seen images of a woman standing on the edge of the tower with smoke and flames behind and all around her as she contemplates whether to jump or not. 
It is not only photos, but also video that has been looped to show the planes hitting the towers over and over again, showing the huge fireball that most likely took a lot of lives in an instant. All of these images are best used to teach our children what happened that day. They also show us the hate that is directed towards the U.S.A. by these terrorists that are hell-bent on killing us all and taking over America. 

However, what I have seen on social media as of late is very disturbing to me and a lot of other people. You see my fiance was one of the victims in the South Tower that day. I have lived that day every day for the past 18 years in my mind. I watched the TV for days afterwards in hopes of seeing my loved one, but it was not to be. Since the election that elected President Trump, I have seen more and more of the images and videos I have been talking about on social media like Facebook. I have talked to her parents about this and they feel the same way that I do. It is very insensitive to use the photos and videos as a tool to get a point across for a political agenda. You don’t need to post a photo or video, just say the attacks of 9/11 and people with any sense will know what you are talking about. You see it kills us that lost loved ones on that day to see the photos and video it brings it back to us in vivid detail that we don’t need. It makes those of us angry at the people posting that they have either no sense or no feelings about us. We that lost loved ones that day are still hurting very badly, some of us have even ended our lives because they could not deal with the loss and the heartless people around them. I have known 11 people that decided to end it because of people that they were around did not have a heart to try to understand their problem of dealing with the death of their loved one in such a historical event that will always be etched in their minds.  So, I ask you to please stop using those kinds of images to try and get your point across. It is hurting more people than it helps.  

Alfred Britt.

Another Christmas

“Another Christmas”

Another Christmas without my sweetheart,

Another Christmas that we are apart.

Another Christmas without your beautiful blue eyes,

Another Christmas that part of me dies.

Another Christmas without your beautiful blonde hair,

Another Christmas alone I must bare.

Another Christmas without your beautiful smile to brighten my day,

Another Christmas that I remember, cry and pray.

Another Christmas with a heart that is broken in two,

Another Christmas without you as sweet as the morning dew.

Another Christmas thinking of the day you went away,

Another Christmas asking why it couldn't have been me that went away.

Another Christmas that I miss you with all my heart,

Another Christmas that we are apart.

Alfred Britt

(c)2018

Chaos & Debacle In Mcdonough And Kids Suffer

There was total CHAOS in McDonough on October 27th during the "Uncle Shaq trunk or treat event at the Courthouse parking deck."  There were families waiting in line 2+ hours and got up to the entrance and were turned away.  This was happening between 7:15 and 7:30 pm and the event was billed to last until 8:00PM.  There were kids not only crying, but screaming because they could not get in.  Some have referred this as the "poop show" in McDonough.  And there are several people, of course, taking up for him and his event, but they have no children and did not wait in line with them for over 2 hours.  Just think this man wants to be the next Sheriff of Henry County and he cannot manage a trick or treat event at a very large parking deck in McDonough.  It would be the same CHAOS with him being Sheriff.  This is another bad scar on the face of the City of McDonough thanks to those who want to be in the news and the look at me crowd.  There are mothers and fathers right now that would not give two cents to meet him or have anything to do with an event he is part of because of the way this has been handled.  Remember this will get around and people will stay away from future events because they don't want to wait in line forever to be told to go home by someone who doesn't give a tinkers damn.  It looks like the shenanigans of the City of Stockbridge have moved to McDonough.  Yep looking good there.

A Very Irritated Parent

More Bad Press For Henry County

"Boo--A Spook Will Get You or At Least Someone in Your Wallet"

It looks like McDonough and Henry County have hit a new low.  There was another paranormal investigative team back in McDonough saying that there are ghosts from the train wreck of June 23, 1900, that are still plaguing the city.  Strange that all the longtime residents of the town have had no problems with ghosts until a few years ago.  The problem with a lot of what was said in the report is laughable.  They don't realize that most of those buildings they were inside of were not there in 1900.  Most of them at that time were made of wood and they have been torn down and rebuilt in the early part of the 20th century.  There were also two large fires on the south side of the square area in 1903 and 1910 that destroyed much of the existing structures that had to be rebuilt.  If people would take the time to look at the county site for the buildings in the area of town they will find some of them weren't even there then.  Another thing not thought about was the fact that the new courthouse was finished in 1897.  The old courthouse stood where the square is today.  They sold it and it was torn down for the bricks.  Now, it was barely cleaned up when the train wrecked.   The square was not developed yet, but the lot was empty.  Bunn's Funeral Home and Carmichael's Funeral Home prepared the bodies from the wreck and put them in boxes and those boxes were also filled with ice to keep those corpses cold until they were removed.   The one big laugh of the show is the guy who owns the old bank on Macon Street and has a restaurant there now.  He said there was a funeral home upstairs.  Wrong building and wrong time.  There was no funeral home there.  And those men talking to a doll made it even more laughable.   The thing that bothers so many people about this is that there are some well-educated people, well thought of people and generally good at heart people who believe all this is really happening.  The investigation team said they couldn't film from the trestle because of a city ordinance.  It isn't a city ordinance it is a Rail Road Law that they are trespassing on their property.  They went there anyway and filmed.  Most that are watching this unfold are knowing what is happening.  They are preying upon people for money.  They are using those who died in that accident to make a buck for McDonough.  That doesn't look good either morally or anything else.  One thing about it though it seems every year around Halloween this pops up and it is making McDonough and Henry County look foolish once again.

The Staff

Turning Fifty And Missing You Sweetheart

It’s been sixteen years sweetheart since you were taken from me on that clear blue September day. I have thought of you every day and I still miss you so much that tears still flow for you. For some time now I have been thinking of you in a different way. This year I will turn fifty later in September. I still see you as that beautiful twenty six year old that I lost. It’s hard to see you as a forty three year old lady you would have been. I think of what our kids would be now. They would be just a year or two younger than my grand niece Victoria. She was born in late January after you were taken from me. You would have love Vic she is a little like you were a little tom boy, but also a little girly too. She was born just four months after you were gone and she saved me from going crazy over losing you sweetheart. You see my niece Kristie needed someone to watch Vic, so she could work and I said I would watch her for Kristie. Vic helped me to keep my mind busy from your tragic passing.   

After I was injured on the job, and we decided I would run our farm and raise a small herd of ostriches, I think of what our farm would be like now with the horses and the birds. I can see you teaching Vic and our kids to ride horses and how to take care of them. I think of how well you would have done in your architectural and engineering work you loved so much. Whenever I see a couple I can’t help but think of us and how happy we were together and then I think of what would have been, and I get very sad and lonely in my heart. Baby, I miss everything about you. Your long golden hair, your bright blue eyes, your caring heart, your love. But most of all I just miss you being next to me and having my back on things. I look back and I can honestly say the six years we were together were the years I was alive. So, as I am about to be fifty years old I can still say you will always be my love of a lifetime.

Alfred Britt.  

Photographs, Memories Of You.

I look at your photograph and remember there was no mountain we could not climb,

Looking at your beautiful smile takes me back to a wonderful time.

I have photographs of you throughout the house,

My love for you is so strong it cannot be dowsed.

I think of your love that you gave freely,

For you to be in my arms looking into each other’s eyes is what I need really.

I have photographs of you and your bright beautiful smile,

I remember the love you had for me with your own kind of style.

Your photographs remind me of the time I was truly alive,

For the past sixteen years, I have ceased to live without your love by my side.

As I am about to turn fifty years old,  I still see you as the twenty six year old sweetheart I lost,

But I know you would be a beautiful lady now, but without you by my side, I am living in a world of the tumbled and tossed.

Alfred Britt

(c)2017

It’s Been Fifteen Years Of Darkness

It’s Been Fifteen Years Of Darkness

Sweetheart it’s been fifteen years since my world ended and life became cold,lonely and empty without you as my wife. The day you were killed a large part of me died too and I have not been the same since. I have thought and cried for you every day since that  September day. Friends and family have told me I need to move on with my life. But how do you do that when a large part of my life is missing. Your best friend Jill has been talking to me. She told me you would want me to move on and make another lady as happy as I made you. I have been giving it thought but I always think about you and I stumble back into my cold dark hole in my heart. Later this month I will turn 49 years old, you know baby one of my biggest fears was being alone. I have struggled for 15 years of being alone without you in my life. I am writing a book about our 6 years together in hopes that sharing our story with family and close friends will help me heal and give a better understanding of what we meant to each other and the pain I am in and have been in for 15 years. You will always have a large part of my heart till the day I die sweetheart even if I move on with another lady in my life. You made an impact on my life that I will never forget. You gave me hope that I had value in this world by your love for me and my family. You showed me that even someone like me could be loved by a beautiful, smart lady like you. You gave me the strength to do the best I could in all I would do. You had me sitting on top of the world with your beautiful blue eyes looking into mine and saying you loved me with all your heart. I will never ever forget how much you changed my life and what all you did for me. Baby you were my love of a lifetime. 

Famine 

He sits in a cold lonely corner crying,
His eyes watery and red with no signs of drying.

He remembers times of the past with a gleam in his eye,
Those times were great, he felt so alive to be happy he must try. 

 He looks around his house at all that could be, 
But he also sees the emptiness of it and the cold returns by degree. 

He remembers the beautiful love he had,
Death took her in an instant and times he gets mad.

At times he puts up a good fight to keep trying,
But the slightest setback and he is back in the corner crying.

Without his own family, he can’t seem to get a good life to start,
He returns to the cold lonely corner crying suffering from famine of the soul and heart.   

Alfred Britt
(c)2016

As we remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 remember we are still in danger from terrorist to this day. We must remember the families that lost loved ones on this day. They are still hurting and will be hurting for the rest of their lives. It’s been 15 years and I see a diminishing of events to honor those that died that day and that died to punish the offenders. I do not understand this at all. We were attacked and our loved ones were murdered on that day. Do you not give a damn about your own friends and family? We must fight to preserve our way of life and if that means closing all borders and immigration into the Country then so be it and if it means kicking out some then so be it too. We need to build up our military to be the biggest baddest beast there is in the world. We must fund the FBI, NSA and CIA so the military knows what to fight and kick ass.  It’s time America took a stand and to hell with what the rest of the world thinks about us. Now let’s get to work people we are Americans!!    

Alfred Britt.

It’s been 14 years

It’s been 14 years since terrorist attacked us on September 11, 2001 killing 3000 Americans. Over the years we have seen America rise up, and help each other in the aftermath. Pride swept over this land, proud to be American and proud of our Military. America came together because our homeland was being threatened by a force that wants to destroy what our founding fathers built with their sweat, blood, tears and yes their lives.

The past few years, I have seen all the caring and pride for each other and America dwindling very rapidly. It started when the same threat that attacked us in 2001 became more prevalent in America. We are starting to slide down a slope that our Nation might not be able to recover from. It’s time we get our attitude back, that we have the best Military in the world, and if you mess with us  “We will put a boot up your ass.” We are the top dog in the game if you want to play we are ready. Americans love to fight, they love the sting of battle, we started the Country with a battle and it’s the only way we will keep it. And for the people that don’t like it, get out of our Nation we are Americans!

I ask you to remember what America stood for years ago when we lived as a great Nation. Remember our Military Men and Women that have died keeping us free. Remember the Firemen and Policemen that gave of themselves, and some did give all that day. And through years to come, through sickness from the debris at ground zero.

I ask that you remember the victims that were killed that day, and their families and loved ones. Please say a prayer for the families of the victims of that horrible day that we suffered. They are still hurting from the sudden way they lost loved ones. I have been in contact with a few of them and I am one also. I lost my fiancé  on that day. We need your understanding that we lost loved ones in a horrible way that we hear about all the time on the news. Some have been able to move on, but many have had a very hard time with their loss of loved ones. Some family members feel that their life force was zapped out of them on that day. So please show compassion for us as we try to live a life that is empty and alone.

To my sweetheart, a day does not pass that I don’t think of you. I miss your laugh that was like a rose petal just as it opens. I miss your beautiful golden hair that was like honey. And your eyes that were perfume that melted my heart every time I would look into them. Your heart was pure gold full of love that I knew was right for me. I miss you so much darling that I will never be complete again in my life. I still play one of our songs, it reminds me of the first time you said you loved me. I knew then I had found the love of a lifetime in you sweet heart. You made me feel so alive knowing that we were in love so much. So baby here is our song, you are my “Love Of A Lifetime” https://youtu.be/5ETENrv8cnU
I love you with all my being.

Alfred

“The Day that Time Stood Still”

“The Day that Time Stood Still”


We are fast approaching the 14th anniversary of the deadliest attack upon our nation since it’s inception.  On September 11, 2001, our nation saw the horror of terrorists using jet airliners for weapons.  Hijackers took four planes to do their dirty work.  They took two to New York City to attack the twin office towers of the World Trade Center.  They also used one to fly into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and yet still another didn’t reach its target as it came down in a remote field in Pennsylvania.


On that day when time halted for many, 2,977 innocent lives were taken by these terrorists.   In New York alone, 2,606 died.  Another 125 died at the Pentagon and 246 on the four jet planes including the field in Pennsylvania.   Air traffic came to a halt.  Our nation was on full alert.  And our leaders vowed to bring those who did this to justice.  Well that justice took a very long time to find the key figures of this plan to disrupt the nation and the world.  Some are still at large today.


The death toll continues to rise as those who went to help at the scene in New York City, many of them have gotten ill with strange illnesses of the lungs as well as over 1,400 have developed cancer.  The death toll will rise as even more of those involved will likely succumb to some respiratory or cancer related illness.  And look at the death toll from the troops in the foreign lands looking and fighting these terrorists.


What the nation should realize as they stop to reflect on that day is the fact that there are still those in this world who want to see us dead.  Keep that close at heart and never forget it.  Remember those family members and loved ones who lost those who were part of their lives that day.  Keep them in prayer as they are still hurting today after all this time.  And there seems to be a lack of people wanting to remember the attack on our nation that killed so many.  They seem to want to forget.  Let not anyone forget and let not our youth go without learning what happened that day fourteen years ago.

Thank you and God Bless,

Pastor Dr. Mike Moon, D.D.

Thinking Of The Homeless Tonight

Hello everyone I am Ruth and I am a 75 year old widow who lives in Ellenwood.  Tonight I am worried about our homeless citizens in the area and there are many. When my son takes me to the doctor I see them in the woods around the I-675 and I-75 exits.  Lord I pray they will not freeze to death tonight because there is no homeless shelter in the area.  It seems that Henry County and the local cities can spend money on things we really don’t need, but they cannot have a homeless shelter in an empty building in the area which there are many.  The Christian community needs to step up and speak about this issue soon before they find people frozen to death.  I feel that the NAACP should get involved as well to help those in need.  Not everyone under those exists are there because they want to be.  We see everyone complain about ego built problems yet they can’t see what is needed in front of them.   I thank this man who has this blog so I can have a place
 to voice my opinion because I have sent it to another site that refuses to print what I have to say on this matter. It isn’t what they call politically correct to find false with an area that has many.  No town or county will ever be perfect and Henry and it’s cities are far from it, but there are good people here who do see this same problem.  Please don’t turn your back on those who need help in this very cold weather.  The reason I am so adamant about this is because I am an old black lady who remembers when her uncle froze to death in Chicago because no one would let him in back in 1923 because he was black.  Please remember it doesn’t matter what color you are to be homeless.




Ruth Sims

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Dreams And Nightmares

It has been 13 years since America was attacked and thousands of her people were murdered and countless affected by the actions of cowards. For me it seems just yesterday that my world turned upside down for ever because it still hurts so much. Sweetheart I dream of the life we would have had together and it cuts my heart like a knife. I think of all the fun and work we had planned on doing in our life with each other and it makes me feel so empty inside when I turn and find you are not there by my side. I feel that sometimes my life has been sucked away from me in the lonely nights and days without you.

I still have nightmares about that day I re-live the moments hour by hour in my mind. They invade my sleep like a devil in the night. I try to keep myself busy to keep from crying. I was part of the team that tried to keep them from building on top of Ground Zero because we feel and know it is a cemetery. But we failed because of greed of money. I have become a watchdog here in Henry County and try to keep the cemeteries here protected but it is a hard fight. I will never give up the fight never. I wanted to let you know that I have never stopped thinking about you and darling I still love you with all my heart and always will.

Alfred.