https://www.mitchalbom.com/end-of-innocencefriends-haunted-by-deaths-of-ionia-teens/ #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.mitchalbom.com/end-of-innocencefriends-haunted-by-deaths-of-ionia-teens/#comment-1720 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:55:13 +0000 http://www.mitchalbom.com/end-of-innocencefriends-haunted-by-deaths-of-ionia-teens/#comment-1720 Dear Mitch, I know that you will most likely not see this post but I thought I would give it a shot anyway. I am the son of Dave Pierce, the older brother of Dannon Pierce. Yesterday marked 30 years since his passing and the pain my family feels has not lessened a bit. My grandparents still beat themselves up for it and my father regrets being halfway across the world in the Marine Corps when he died. My grandparents talked to you, and asked why you lied about the alcohol in the car and in their systems and you told them that only 50% of what you wrote had to be true. The tried to file a lawsuit but enough of the article was true that they couldn’t. There was no alcohol, in the car or in their systems. You blamed my grandparents for the death of those kids, did you not think they already blamed themselves? Did not think about the lies that are still believed about them by people that went to school with them? My grandparents wanted to start a scholarship in the boys names, and were unable to because of what this article said despite the autopsy report. My only question is why? How do you feel after all these years now knowing the damage you did? Please respond, I would like to speak with you, thank you.

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