The generation of Westerners (born between 1883 & 1900) coming-of-age during World War I is known as The Lost Generation not only because they're almost all passed-away now, but also because The War & its aftermath left a-great-many of them Disoriented, Wandering & Directionless; as coined by Gertrude Stein & popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who wrote "You are a lost generation," in the epigraph of his The Sun Also Rises.
The word “|Lost|” carries the scent of to Loosen, |Divide, |Cut |Apart (a Broken Army, Destruction, -Less, |Deprived-of).
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I appreciate your comment, and I'll probably approve it & publish it soon (give me about a week before you try to post it again when it doesn't publish immediately ... thanks)