A Must read!
'I Don't Want To Die All Alone'
And or
'Your Children Don't Have to Die All Alone'
A message of hope and books to help over come the odds.
About ‘I Don’t Want to Die Alone’
Joseph, the sixth child of nine children, describes a sad but shockingly true tale of growing up on the streets at a young age. A life filled with crime, drugs, money, cars, and women, Joe realizes life and time is catching up to him. He shares with the readers his days of living in below zero temperatures in Michigan with no heat in the home, nightly pit stops through ice and snow to raid the supermarket garbage dumpsters, and feasting on goldfish, turtles, and mallard ducks, from the neighborhood park pond. Journey with Joe as he tells an all-out no holds barred tale of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. Living in a household where discipline consisted of holding encyclopedias in each hand while balancing on one foot. Whippings with electrical cords, brooms, two by fours, and garden hoses. After being shot on a street corner, later escaping a drive by shooting, then the subsequent brutal murder of his sixteen-year-old brother, feel the passion with Joe, as he explains several suicide attempts his family never knew about.
Ignoring the stereotypes, read as his controversial thoughts has lead him to an almost recluse lifestyle.
Feeling he would ‘die all alone’, Joe makes a desperate and emotional attempt to apologize and ask forgiveness from family, friends, and foes that suffered during his reign of torment.
"I can only be what I make myself" JFH
About ‘Your Children Don’t Have to Die All Alone’
America, there is an unprecedented wave of killings that are spreading across every major city, every country town, and every rural community.
Not long ago, when large cities were battling this epidemic of young lives being lost; have now crossed over into towns and cities that never experienced murders of this magnitude. It's not just Chicago, Detroit, LA, The ATL, or New Orleans. Kids are dying on the streets in Battle Creek MI, Jackson MS, Pine Bluff AR, or even Petersburg, VA, at such a young age.
Politicians, civic leaders, preachers, teachers and communities are meeting night and day, to find solutions to quell this nonsense of violence.
When once thought of as a gang killing, or a drug killing, is now being looked at as just a senseless killing. We must analyze why young people turn to the streets and are so violent against each other. Parents this is duty that starts at home. Because if you don't find something productive for your kids to do, the streets will find something negative. At the end of the day. Your Children Don't Have to Die All Alone. Since you know someone that is young, this book should be required reading for all. Give it to them.
Both books can be purchased at Amazon or an autographed copy can be ordered by sending a money order for $20 addressed to
Henderson LaGrand Foundation
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301 Clinton, MS 39060