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A Washington state man who vowed after the Sept. 11 attacks not to shave until Osama bin Laden was captured or killed, finally cut off his beard when he heard the news the al Qaeda leader was dead, Reuters reports.
Gary Weddle, a 50-year-old middle school teacher whose beard had reached some 15 inches long, said he began cutting his facial hair for the first time in nearly a decade on Sunday night.
“I’m still very emotional about this, about all of the death and destruction,” Weddle told Reuters in an interview. “I’m finally getting closure on this.”
Weddle said he determined not to shave or trim his beard in the days following Sept. 11, 2001, after reading that in Afghanistan, Taliban leaders would execute men for shaving their beards.