0 History / Memorials & Rememberaces / National Security / Politics / Veterans' Issues November 12, 2012 by Michael Matheron · Published November 12, 2012 Veterans Day 2012 – “. . .cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying . . .” ” . . .cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying . . .” Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Fight to the Finish fr. Counter-Attack and Other Poems. 1918. Please follow and like us: