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TIL; In August 1976, US and South Korean men were trimming a poplar tree obscuring a view between a checkpoint & observation post - A group of North Koreans appeared demanding they stop cutting branches. Capt Bonifas ignored them & then they attacked using clubs & axes taken from the gardening group

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