Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 26, 2021

He had helmet issues even before he got sent off to the war.

Helmet is part of his outfits since the first day.

Now you notice?!

I wonder if it was hard to keep finding helmet jobs for B.D.?

His hair looked fine when he finally stopped wearing the helmet. Must have been a bad case of “hat hair” all that time.

I’m surprised he even has hair, after wearing a helmet all these years.

“Actually, I don’t want to make you feel envious of my magnificent coiffure, in view of your own…um…shortcomings in that department.”

You mean there were Vietnam vets who actually did wear helmets in civvy life?

He’ll always hair issues. (Because of particularly hairy experience during the war.)

BD wore the helmet early on because people could be just as cuckoo about football as they were about foreign policy.

His childhood idol was probably Woody(PUNCH THE OTHER GUY)Hayes.

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https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2004/07/31

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It’s from playing football for years. He has concussion hair.

Different helmet.

Ironically, without the helmet, B.D. actually has a very nice head of hair!

From Wikipedia: The helmet finally came off on April 21, 2004 when, while serving in Iraq, B.D. lost a leg…

All that time they spent together and he never noticed that BD Never removes his helmet of his own free will.