Gary Weddle, a middle school teacher in Washington state, finally shaved his beard off. During the events of 9/11/01 he decided to not shave his beard until OBL was brought to justice. He initially thought it would be about six months. Well nearly 10 years later, he finally got to shave.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/watercooler/156008/70/Man-finally-shaves-beard-after-Bin-Ladens-death
Ironically, the beard made him look a little like OBL
This reminds me of my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Hammond, who cut his hair like the Bears quarterback after the Bears won the 85 superbowl. He vowed to keep the same style til they won again.
Though for all I know he would cut his hair like that, anyway. It wasn’t anything drastic or weird. Just spiky.
A bit of a shame that he shaved it off at home. He could have done it in public as part of a fund-raising effort for 9/11 families - or a fund for the families of deceased Seal Team members.
10 years later, 9/11 families still need fund raising?
Some had newborns. Ten year old children are still fairly expensive to raise.
Yeah, what a jerk.
As I said, a bit of a shame. If he had asked his family, someone else might have made the suggestion. Or done it as a radio promotion, or food drive or something else. He grew the beard as a public act, and this is interesting to the public because of how long his beard grew waiting for bin Laden to be caught.
I guess but I’m not sure that we need to run a charity for them until every child turns 18. There’s different places to get help as a single parent and really I don’t see why 9/11 families deserve a charity campaign at this point in time any more than a woman who lost her husband to a drunk driver or something ten years ago.
Now THAT is a play-off beard!
Glad he decided to not shave rather than not shower.
Refusing to shave one’s beard until a killer is brought to justice. Ah, what a beautiful and deeply symbolic gesture. ~tear~
The part I find funny, is usually in these situations there’s some sort of moral, “I really grew to appreciate it.” But this guy flat out admitted in other interviews, “I should have done something else. It was itchy and really sucked.” 
I’d put it to the first responders, myself. They have ongoing health problems directly caused by the problem.
I’d also consider giving it to another charity just in memory of the families.
Not that I can fault a guy for not doing that. It’s an emotional time for a lot of people. But I think I would have thought of it.
I think it’s a bit of a shame that someone did something pretty epic as an expression of his beliefs, and you found a tiny crack into which you drove a shard of criticism.
And gaffa made a promise to pick nits in internet posts until mankind first steps foot upon Mars.
Aren’t you proud of yourself for trying to criticize his epic belief system?
I didn’t realize you had a dog in this fight. Are you gaffa’s knight in shining armour come to valiantly defend him/her? How noble.
I have no dog in the fight. I’m allergic to them.
But I made a promise to myself in 2005 that I would interject myself into all places unwanted until such time as George RR Martin finished his Song of Ice and Fire series, so I’ll thank you to not question my belief system or how I go about implementing it.
Touché.
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