A 96-year-old former World War II paratrooper shaved his hair into a mohawk to bring joy during the coronavirus pandemic and serve as a tribute to his fallen friends.
Guy Whidden first cut his hair into a mohawk around D-Day in 1944 as it was a popular idea to intimidate the Germans. But a young lieutenant told him the haircut had to go, so he obliged and shaved his head bald the next day.
Whidden, now 96, circled back to that time he cut his hair into a mohawk and thought it would be a great way to spread some cheer to those cooped up because of the coronavirus.
“I knew it would draw some laughs,” he told CNN. “And I don’t have much to do like most of us penned up in our homes.”
On one sunny April day, Whidden and his granddaughter, Lydia, worked on creating his new hairdo. Whidden sat outside with a blue tarp wrapped around him while his granddaughter went to work, shaving his head into a mohawk.
Twenty minutes later, Whidden had a new look.
“I feel like a young buck!” he said in the video posted to YouTube before he challenged other airborne forces to do the same.
Thousands of people have responded, saying that they too have cut their hair all because of him.
“If I can get people to laugh, it makes my day for me, especially in this period of time. It’s very difficult for a lot of people,” Whidden told CNN.
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