Thanks for starting this thread,
Formendacil.
Last Friday, I was thinking of two relatives who joined the UK's armed forces in WWI. Of those two, one came back; the other didn't, and is buried in West Flanders.
On the evening of the same day, I gave a talk to fellow members of a numismatic society, on the topic of 'The Victoria Cross'.
It was only some time after the society's secretary gave me 11th November as an available date for the talk, that I realised how appropriate it was.
When doing research about the Cross, I came across what was said about it by Ken McKay, whose son, Sergeant Ian McKay, in the Parachute Regiment, was given a posthumous VC on 9th November 1982 due to what he did in the recent Falklands War: '
I'm the proudest man in the world but I would rather have Ian alive'.