President George H. W. Bush goes sly for Leukemia patients.

• President George H. W. Bush goes sly for Leukemia patients. by Daven on 24 Jul, 2013 15:26
• I have been a fan of the Presidents Bush  ( jr. and Sr.) for many years but to see him, at the age of 89 I believe, shave his head and support for leukemia patients I've got to tip my hat and say bravo Mr. Pres. bravo!!!
  
  http://www.kmov.com/news/national/216814371.html
• #1 by wpruitt on 24 Jul, 2013 15:41
• Just stumbled across this in some newsfeeds!  Apparently both Former President Bush and his Secret Service Detachment went sly.
  http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/george-h-w-bush-shaves-his-head-in-solidarity-with-2-year-ol
  
• #2 by Cave Dweller on 24 Jul, 2013 16:45
• Wow.  That is a great story.
• #3 by Razor X on 24 Jul, 2013 17:35
• Excellent!
• #4 by mrzed on 24 Jul, 2013 19:42
• Maybe he'll stay sly for life.
  
  Perhaps we should give him an honorary membership in SBG.
  
  
• #5 by slymyke on 24 Jul, 2013 20:33
• very cool!!
• #6 by schro on 24 Jul, 2013 21:10
• Read my lips....I approve of that message!
• #7 by Sir Harry on 24 Jul, 2013 21:18
• Nice, touching gesture by GHWB.....Thanks for sharing!....On a side note, I heard that GWB had an obsession with shaved heads...maybe he could take a cue from pops and do the same!
• #8 by clipped on 25 Jul, 2013 00:18
• I lost a daughter as a result of congenital cardiac disease 9 years ago when she was 11.  I am a somewhat quite "lurker/member" here.   But I also belong to a fathers' support group, "www/fathers-forever.org", which is a group for men who have had a child die.   It is very gratifying to see George Bush Sr. shave his head at age 89 to support a member of his security detail dealing with a critical pediatric cancer. I had read somewhere along the line that Bush Sr. had a child die.  So did President Eisenhower, and JFK, and many, many other much less notable people.  However, in years gone by, the advice to men like us was to bury the memory and to "move on" in silence.  Thankfully, now, that is not the conventional wisdom, and it's OK for us who have suffered such a loss, to be open about it and thereby offer support to others who have suffered a similar loss, as we do move on.  Any SBG members reading this eMail are welcome to look up the "Fathers-Forever.org" website and be in contact through the website or in PM to me. 
  
  Kudos to George Sr. for doing this. As we who have suffered such a loss know (even if we have other children), for our children who have died, we are truly "fathers forever".   Witness George Bush, who 40 yeas later, is offering support to a father in danger of sufferings such a tragic loss.   Hopefully, this dad will not suffer this ordeal.   However, for those who have had such a loss, while things change and improve over time, one never really gets over such a loss, as George Sr. has demonstrated. 
• #9 by tomgallagher on 25 Jul, 2013 08:33
• Good for the old fighter pilot. True grit indeed.
• #10 by Mikekoz13 on 25 Jul, 2013 08:38
• A very nice, compassionate, and heartfelt reply Clipped. I can't even imagine losing a child.
  
  Peace
• #11 by clipped on 27 Jul, 2013 11:47
• Thanks Mike
• #12 by b.driscoll on 28 Jul, 2013 08:41
•   A true class act.................integrity and honor, sorely missing today.