I'd been wanting to read this for a while and am glad I finally got around to it. Living in Baltimore, I see the absolute waste of young people's lives. It was fascinating to see how much the lives of the two Wes's were alike, though they ended so differently. Though I'm not sure it's much use to me, I liked the added resource guide in the paperback version, even if it did include Boy Scouts but not the Girl Scouts.