The name Mummenschanz (pronounced moom-un-schonz) comes from a term used to describe medieval Swiss soldiers who wore masks to hide their reactions, but that explains little today.
The contemporaneous descriptions of the event describe soldiers walking on the Temple Mount, a holy place to Christians, with blood running up to their knees.
The condemned was usually stripped naked-all the New Testament gospels describe soldiers gambling for the robes of Jesus.
It is believed the word was originally used to describe French soldiers when they occupied Mexico in the 1860s.
He described young soldiers beating Holocaust survivors as a "terrible mental picture".
Tacitus mentioned the phrase vir militaris in some of his passages in order to describe ordinary soldiers or junior officers.
In any case, the term hajduk came to be used in the 16th century to describe irregular soldiers.
Wounded in action (WIA) describes soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed.
V-Tan describes seeing "masked soldiers", which immediately conjures up an image of Imperial stormtroopers.
In the video RM described American soldiers in the video as "slain terrorists in the eternal hellfire".