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{{quote|''The Alliance lost eight cruisers. Shenyang. Emden. Jakarta. Cairo. Seoul. Cape Town. Warsaw. Madrid. And yes, I remember them all. Everyone in the Fifth Fleet is a hero. The Alliance owes them all medals, the Council owes them a lot more than that. And so do you.''|'''Commander Shepard''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', Rand Al'thor uses this as a [[Madness Mantra]], reciting a ''long'' list of every woman he's killed, caused to die, led to their deaths, failed to save, happened to be around when they died...
* Despite his claims that he's a self-absorbed [[Dirty Coward]], ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!) becomes shocked at one point when he realises that he's forgotten the ''face'' of one of the soldiers who died under his command. Decades
* The ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] has had a few instances, notably:
** In the ''[[X Wing Series|X-Wing]]'' series, [[The Ace|Wedge Antilles]] repeatedly remembers the names and faces of those who fought by his side and died under his command.
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* Kellen in ''[[The Obsidian Trilogy]]'' seems to try to fight against this. His war magic gives him the ability and the compulsion to lead the army and that requires him to use the soldiers at his command, knowing that many will die. But he's still human, and though his magic sped up his ascension through the ranks, he comes to personally know many of those that he would later command. He is able to put aside the names for the duration of the war but it almost becomes too much for him by the end.
* In The Vor Game, Miles Vorkosigan specifically asks for the name of a soldier who just died saving his life.
* Richard Bolitho, hero of a [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]] series by Alexander Kent, in one of the books meets a woman who merely gives him her
* In ''[[The Black Company]]'', Croaker makes it a personal goal to record the passing of every company member in his books of the Annals.
** According to Croaker, this is one of the main purposes of the
* ''[[The Iliad]]'' would be a lot shorter had Homer not recorded the name (sometimes accompanied by a short biography) of every single person who died in it.
* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle|Eldest]]'', Roran recites the names of a dozen villagers of Carvahall who died fighting [[The Empire]] during his [[Rousing Speech]].
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** The names of the missing Commonwealth soldiers are also engraved in various memorials around Belgium and France, near the battlefields where they died. There are so many names that some families took ninety years of searching to find them.
* The Hall of Names inside of Yad Vashem contains a list of the name of every known Jewish victim of the Holocaust. There is space on the shelves reserved for those who remain unknown.
* The War Memorial of Korea<ref>
* In a reversal of sorts from the Unknown Soldier above, the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium and the nearby Thiepval memorial are monuments to the allied dead in the First World War who's bodies have yet to be found.
* During some wars, especially [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], local newspapers would list the names of military casualties as they were reported. Late in the war Nazi Germany stopped doing so, as the huge lists of names were not helping morale.
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