We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]

I've walked on hot coals with Tony Robbins.

With his passing, we have lost an entire generation who left Australia to defend our nation, the British Empire and other nations in the cause of freedom and democracy,

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;--and yet too much for twenty years.