Generation Of Sorrow

We have spent our lives looking back

At the violence of our youth

Regretting the bloodshed of innocence

Forever seeking the eternal truth

Would we have stood the test of courage

Knowing full well that we would die

The way our battle torn Brothers did

When they put their lives down on the line

Would we have had the faith to believe

As we gasped for our last breath

That we would be remembered by our nation

As a generation that did our best

58000 answered freedoms call

when death would be their only gain

bound by honor and love for country

would we have done the same

We wore the same uniforms you and I

We trod upon the same bloody ground

But we survived and lived to go on

To return to our hometowns

We should have no guilt within our heart

Still we find it hard to face tomorrow

Because we carry these questions of war

We are history's generation of sorrow

Boondocker

10/5/03