Chuck Bryant

And I guess the people who were cutting the tree had a couple of axes, these civilians, and they dropped their axes and ran.

And the North Korean troops picked up the axes.

And here is where the reason that this is called the DMZ axe incident begins.

That's right.

So Boniface was bludgeoned to death by these guys attacking him.

And you can watch this like it was caught on film.

It's it's very chaotic.

You can't really get I mean, it's kind of from far away, so you can't get a lot of detail.

Right.

But, you know, there are still shots in film of this stuff going on.

So he was bludgeoned.

First Lieutenant Mark Barrett.

was also beaten to death.

He was chased down over a retaining wall.

And, you know, sort of the, I mean, it's sad enough as it is, but Boniface was due to go home to his wife and three kids in three days.

So it was made it, you know, sort of especially brutal.

Yeah.

And not like for a visit like this is his last three days in Korea where he was murdered by an axe by North Korean troops.

It's almost like a parody.

Like it's almost too crazy to believe that that's how close he was to leaving Korea.