There are many on-line shrines and memorial sites. Earl Spencer's eulogy for his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, is probably the best known modern eulogy. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.
Eulogies abound in classical texts.
In honouring this unknown soldier today, through this funeral and this burial, we are embracing the fact of the anonymity and saying that because we do not know him and we do not know what he could have become, he has become more than one body, more than one grave. He is an ideal. He is a symbol of all sacrifice. He is every soldier in all our wars. Israel had to say goodbye to a prime minister assassinated in 1995.