This is the story of the "Beat Generation".
They have been bathed in the cruelest fire of war,
They've suffered from the economic downturn;
They were forcibly infused with a militaristic spirit;
They took up arms and laid down their arms,
They struggled bravely in the dark whirlpools,
Be devoured, or be reborn in nirvana.
After World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and economic recovery, a generation of people struggled, persevered, hoped and loved in the gloomiest world.