The Greatest Generation

All those lives

All those lives
     tossed into turmoil
When there was a rise in tyranny
     and crimes against humanity
Many answered the call to fight for justice

Men were sent off to war
Women went off to work
All those lives
All they sacrificed

When I think of 1944
I think of the world being at war
Innocent lives being taken away
Innocent people being displaced

I think of all those young men being in faraway lands
     not knowing if they would come home
I think of the mothers who never saw their sons alive again
All they sacrificed
I think of the ones who returned
     with more than visible scars
Hell and the horrors of war
All those lives

When I think of 1944
I think of those who answered the call
Of the bravest
Of the greatest generation of all