Dan Driscoll's poem

Remember the Lost Generation

Lost to their fathers
Lost to their mothers
Lost to their sisters
Lost to their brothers

An entire generation
Lost to us forever
Men and boys gone
But forgotten, never

We will always remember
The deeds of the brave
Who sacrificed themselves
For their families to save

Some were in it for glory
A noble goal none the less
For king and for country
Putting their skill to the test

Some consider the Ridge
To be a great victory
But to the families of the lost
That is not what they see

Many saw Vimy Ridge
As a virtually impeneterable wall
An almost hopeless venture
It was sure to never fall

Then came the Canadians
Cementing their place in time
Always to be remembered
In ballads, songs and rhyme

We Remember the deeds
Of these Candian men, so brave
A generation lost, perhaps
But whose memory we will save.

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