The hero by siegfried sassoon?

Even though this guy didn't save anyones life or drag someone out of the trench, he was there and who can blame him for being scared? even him just being there is something that most of us couldn't do. The point of the poem isn't about whether he was a hero or not, its about a woman's young child dying in a horibble way, none of you could ever imagine. even though the boy probably did die a horrible lonely, scared death, that doesn't mean that his mother has to hear that, by lying to his mother and painting a nice picture, it's going to leave her with happy memories of him, a lot of people can't take how horrible war is and its not pretty or glorious...