1.   The poem does not eulogize the dead soldiers.

2.   Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.

3.   Between feasts, UNIIMOG collects dead soldiers.

4.   Near the residential apartments he had seen an exploded armoured carrier, and more dead soldiers.

5.   Just before eleven that morning Charlie saw his first dead soldier, a lieutenant from the East Yorkshire Regiment.

6.   The poem then outlines the reasons for doing this, describing how the dead soldier always used to wake with the sun.

7.   Americans were horrified to see pictures of a dead soldier dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

8.   Armed with the single name Yoshio Shimazu, Steinman begins a quest to return the flag to whatever relatives the dead soldier might have in Japan.