American Sniper ending explained (spoilers)

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Chris is seen leaving the house, to join a fellow vet, to go somewhere. We can't hear properly what they are saying, as Chris moves closer to him and the microphone is with Chris's wife, who stands at the front door, watching her husband walk away and she has a strange look on her face when she sees the other man's face, body and his posture - is she getting a signal to stop Chris leaving? On the screen, we read how Chris was killed that day by a fellow vet; we don't know if it was the same one who came over that day. Along the route that the hearse and an escort take to deliver Chris to wherever he is taken, on both sides of the roads are people lined up the whole way, very sombre, and a bugler plays non-stop. On his coffin are about thirty gold wings (I'm not sure what they are); we've seen other coffins with five or six on them; we saw Chris put one on a mate's coffin, but nowhere near the amount Chris has on his coffin.