From Mi'kmaq Keptin John Joe Sark on Facebook this morning:

"Dan Mitchell, who was only fourteen years old when he joined the army and was sent overseas and right into the front lines, told me that one night he told the kphis captin, why do we have to unnecessarily kill the German soldiers, they are only young men like us. Let me sneak into their trenches, steal one of their knives, run out of range of their rifles and yell and wave the knife , of course it was moonlight. He said it is better to scare the daylights out of them than to kill them. Sure enough the Germans retreated."

Sounds Gurkha-esque. Except with the yelling ... and the not killing one of them. 8-)