He shaves his beard off after 10 years

A Washington state man who vowed after the September 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.
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."
"I'm a God-fearing man," Weddle said, recalling how horrified he was "knowing that thousands of people were getting crushed" during the attacks.
"I didn't want to forget. I wasn't going to forget," he said.
He was outside tending to his garden when a teacher friend called on Sunday evening with the news of bin Laden's death.
Weddle said at first he thought the news was a joke, but after shedding tears for a few minutes, quickly began shedding his facial hair, snipping it with scissors, then shaving with a razor.