Chuck Bryant

But they left this big stump with two, like it was branching at the top.

And one of the soldiers who was at the scene said that it looked like somebody raising their arms in surrender, like the North Koreans were surrendering.

Yeah, I saw that Kissinger tried to get a carving artist in there to shape it in the form of a middle finger.

Those guys are great.

The chainsaw artists, man.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

I don't know if the intent was ever to cut down the entire tree.

I don't think that that was the plan, even in the second time, even in Operation Paul Bunyan.

But they left this stump.

Everybody on the U.S.

side just went back out.

They just withdrew.

The operation was successful.

But things were still quite tense.

It wasn't clear whether North Korea was going to respond still.

Just because the operation was done and now there weren't a bunch of troops, America or the UN command, they just kept patrolling the joint security area like it was any other day.

Because that's what it was supposed to be, even though this operation had commenced.

It was now over, so things were supposed to go back to normal.

But we still had no idea what North Korea was going to do.

So, you know, pretext to this was they were very unapologetic about the whole incident leading up to that, like after after Captain Boniface and Lieutenant Barrett were killed.