Chestnuts....Tall.... Once the twin American Chestnuts stood tall and proud above the forest. None could compare to their grandeur. The steadfast Oaks below stood strong and true and helped lift the great twin chestnuts into the heavens. Suddenly the Great Twin American Chestnuts were struck......struck by a strange and devious axe....something derisive and unexpected.... But still the Chestnuts stood their ground and remained high even though their trunks were splintered by the treacherous blow.....the shattered trunks still remained tall and proud, but then slowly, little by little the shattered trunks did sway, mortal indeed were the insults to the mighty...