you could say it's about the "unknown soldier".
but, i think it's actually about the glorification of the military.
Spectacularity
Think it's more about twisting a person's image from being a hero in death to a secretive monster in life.
jessica
i think that's a kind of a generalization of what i'm proposing - the idea that the soldier is not a hero, but in fact a monster. but, there's a lot of very specific references to military protocol. i mean, you could apply that broad idea to lots of different things. i've just always gotten the feeling that the military context is what he actually intended....