Veteran Julio Aro was nominated this week for the Nobel Peace Prize. Aro, however, assured he feels he already received a bigger prize: "the kiss and the hug from a mother who recovered her son".

Aro shares the nomination with Geoffrey Cardozo, a British officer who fought in the 1982 conflict. They are candidates for their work in identifying the remains of soldiers buried at the Darwin cemetery on the islands.

The former Argentine serviceman embarked many years ago on this mission after visiting the graves of his comrades in Malvinas. Most of the tombs were then marked with a sign that said: "Argentine soldier known only to God", cause the remains couldn't be IDed by the British teams that buried the bodies.

Therefore, he began meeting with British war veterans and then met Cardozo, who had been in charge of the burials immediately after the war. A foundation was created "Don't forget me" whose goal was to put the names and surnames of the fallen on their graves.

So far, 115 bodies were identified, thanks also to the joint work of the International Red Cross and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.

The Malvinas War took place between April and June, 1982. It was a confrontation between Argentina, then under a dictatorship, and the UK, over the Malvinas Archipelago in the South Atlantic, under British control since the 1830s despite Argentine protests and claims of sovereignty. The consequences in lives of the conflict were disastrous for Argentina. The defeat also precipitated the end of the military regime, and in 1983 elections were held and won by Raúl Alfonsín, who became the first post-dictatorship constitutional President.