[kg_veteran]

Larger than the loss of their own lives? How about this:

During the Phillippine Insurrection in 1911, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing was dealing with numerous Islamic terrorist attacks. He captured a group of terrorists, forced them to dig their own graves, and then the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.