Bryan Koenig
(CNN) — Last week, former President George H. W. Bush had a full head of hair when he gave President Barack Obama a pair of socks. Today, it’s gone, shaved to the scalp in solidarity with a young cancer patient.
According to a statement from a spokesman for the 41st president, Bush shaved his head after members of his Secret Service detail shaved theirs, meant to show solidarity with Patrick, the two year-old son of one of the detail who is battling leukemia.
Members of the security detail have already created a website meant to raise money to pay for Patrick’s treatment. His last name is being withheld along with that of his father Jon.
At 89, Bush shaved his head this week after making a donation to Patrick’s leukemia treatment. Bush and his wife Barbara lost their second child, Robin, to the disease six decades ago at the age of four.
According to the release, the security detail is also organizing a motorcycle benefit run next month that will ride through the Maine countryside and host a lunch and silent auction to raise money for Patrick’s treatment.