Craig Badiali and Joan Fox, two popular high school juniors, committed suicide in 1969 as a protest to the Vietnam War. Their families were devastated and the town was shocked. Much was made of the fact that Craig and Joan were "normal" teenagers, not "hippies"; therefore why would they do such a terrible thing? The letters they left at the scene for their friends were never delivered. The high school made no attempt to provide grief counseling for the students. Craig's older brother asked author Eliot Asinof to write about the tragedy; this book is the result.