Even more so, with the above in mind: visiting a memorial wall with only a few pictures on it. It is really touching that in-universe, your soldiers aren't simply anonymous weapons sent into a meat grinder, but comrades who remember their fallen dead. All the while, somber Taps-esque military music plays in the background. In this game, its surrounded by shot glasses, with a few pictures posted up on the wall, starting out as a few wallet-size clippings if you've only lost one or two and growing to a full size remembrance with almost none of the wall uncovered if you're sending troops into the meat grinder. It could have been just a plaque on the wall, or a notice board. The Memorial Wall, combining this with a Tear Jerker. Hill fires a reaction shot", and have said suppressing alien be gunned down. It's not unheard of for a teammate to get suppressed by an alien, call for backup and immediately see something along the lines of "Col. On the same note, the Support class can obtain a skill which allows them to trigger Reaction Shots when the enemy fires, not just when they move. It's heartwarming to think that maybe that shot was payback. When a soldier is either killed or knocked out, and one of your soldiers panics and kills the alien who took out their buddy. And, since they both start as Lieutenant-ranked soldiers, and also are 100% guaranteed to gain Psionic powers when tested, it's hard not to pair them together on missions, just to see them go to town on the alien forces that kidnapped them, and mess them up with the same psionic powers they were trying to exploit. Not only do they have the same last name, not only do they both hail from the same country (Egypt), but their appearances are so alike it's almost scary. 
For bonus points, the closest this comes to being Canon is with two of the three "Furies" (see below for details) rescued by XCOM at the end of the Portent Missions: Said and Fatima Tariq. 
Bonus points if one of them becomes The Volunteer.
Having been assigned two soldiers with the same last name, it's always heartwarming to think that there's a couple or siblings out there trying to save the world together. An odd example, but while the Uber Ethereal is quick to criticize most of the alien slave races during the final mission, it's surprisingly complimentary toward the Thin Men. It's a shame that he gets eviscerated by a Chryssalid shortly after that. In the opening cutscene to the first Terror mission, one of the fleeing civilians stops to pull a wounded man out of the way while under plasma fire. Knowing that they made it out alive and will be back on their feet is wonderful. Watching wounded troopers joking around in the infirmary.
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