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While deployed to Al Asad, Iraq, Officers Meetze, Kerekes, Mayer, Daoust, from the South Carolina Army National Guard entered into a 30-day mustache challenge. Pictured with their certificates of appreciation for a job well done in support of all mustaches and Americans alike, they have grown and groomed their mustaches in honor of all those who couldn't.![Dan Snarr]()
Murray City, Utah, Mayor Dan Snarr has worn his trademark handlebar mustache with pride for more than 30 years. But the mayor also has known mustache sacrifice, raising $2,000 this summer for The Children's Miracle Network by allowing local Costco shoppers to vote and donate ($1.00 per vote) for Snarr to either 'save' or 'shave' his historic mayoral mustache. After his constituents voted 'shave,' the mayor's wife April Snarr snipped the handlbars from his lip curtain on May 16, 2009. Thankfully, the mayor still sports what remains of his faithful mustache.![Attorney General Eric Holder]()
In February 2009, Eric H. Holder Jr. was sworn in as the 82nd attorney general of the United States, becoming the first mustached American to hold that role since Francis Biddle in 1945.![Bill Geist]()
Since 1987, millions of Americans have known CBS correspondent Bill Geist and his well-coifed mustache. "He joined the network at a time when people of Mustached American descent were not welcome on broadcast television," the American Mustache Institute says. "And ignoring the vast discrimination which plagues Mustached Americans -- especially those seeking jobs in TV -- Bill has prospered, chronicling some of the quirkiest people and places in America."![Sully]()
US Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III successfully carried out the emergency landing of Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, saving the lives of all 155 on board.![Landry Jones]()
Landry created mustache mania on the Oklahoma University campus after replacing the injured Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford, leading OU fans to dawn the finger 'stash, painted-on 'stash, and "fear the stash" T-shirts. In addition to the mustache fever, Landry racked up a NCAA record for passing yards by a freshman and a team record six passing touchdowns. "He has inspired a new generation of men and women to fall in love with the mustache," the American Mustache Institute says.![J-Stache]()
J-Stache is not only a mustache, he's "the mustache to end all mustaches," the American Mustache Institute says. "Plus, he has no body. He's just a mustache. Keepin' it pure."![Brendan Ryan]()
Ryan, of the St. Louis Cardinals, entered the 2009 season as a utility infielder known for his scrappy defense. Then, along with many of his teammates, he grew a mustache. "Since then, Ryan's become the Cardinals' primary shortstop, is batting over .300, and playing spectacular defense," the American Mustache Institute says. "On August 20, against the San Diego Padres, Ryan even used the power of the lip sweater to his first career grand slam, proving once again that there is no performance enhancer quite like a mustache."![Samuel and Devon Holcombe]()
Identical twins Samuel and Devon Holcombe of Jacksonville, Fla., each placed extremely well in this past year's World Beard & Mustache Championship in Alaska -- Sam was third in the "English" style competition and Devon was second in "Freestyle" competition.![Whitney Matheson]()
Is it unrealistic for a woman -- even one without a mustache -- to be the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year?" Not when you are USA Today's Whitney Matheson. The author of the Pop Candy blog "pledges to write about mustaches at least once weekly," the American Mustache Institute says. "Though her award-winning mustache loving online platform, since 1999, Whitney has promoted the health, good looks and power of the Mustached American lifestyle through a pop culture lens."![Clay Zavada]()
"He quit baseball to return to the family farm after a death in the family, and then triumphantly returned to the big leagues -- mustache on lip -- as the first since Rollie Fingers to bring lip-hair cool back to the handle bar mustache in professional baseball," the American Mustache Institute says of Clay Zavadra. "With adoring Arizona Diamondback fans wearing 'Respect da Stache' shirts, who has brought more respect to the mustache? Very few -- that's who."![Jon Chattman]()
As the founder of TheCheapPop.com, Jon Chattman "has been a longtime mustache-supporting pioneer, continually propagating the Mustached American lifestyle on both his face and website," AMI says. The institute says even when Chattman went paperback with his love of mustaches in the "Book of Bert" and his publisher went out of business and stole his profits -- Chattman was still undeterred. This year he published his new flavor-saving book "Sweet 'Stache: 50 Badass Mustaches and the Faces Who Sport Them."![Tom Noyes]()
Last year, AMI says, Tom Noyes of Chelmsford, Mass., found his elderly neighbor face down in a snow bank in under 32 degree weather and saved her life.![Robert Mohr]()
For almost 20 years, Rob Mohr, operations group commander for the 131st Fighter Wing, St. Louis, Mo., and his mustache have flown the skies in an F-15 to help protect and defend our country.![Terry Walthall]()
Terry Walthall's artistic capabilities can be seen throughout the Midwest. He is a painter, sculptor, designer, theatre lighting designer and builder and still has time to be a great friend, constantly reaching out to help people -- from offering a place to stay to painting their house -- and never asking for anything in return, AMI says.![John Yeutter]()
Don't let his green mustache fool you. John Yeutter, an accounting professor at Oklahoma's Northeastern State University, is a man on a serious mission. From his lively classroom discussions about finance, to his spirited displays of support from the River Hawk bleachers, Dr. Yeutter takes a colorful approach to his role in shaping the Northeastern experience, AMI says. "I try to be enthusiastic in everything that I do," Yeutter told AMI. "I'd like to think that I teach tax with the same excitement that I do when I cheer on the teams -- maybe without the yelling and screaming."![Michael Allen]()
Laid off in April 2009, Michael Allen, who kicked his drug habit in 2001, has spent the time since then with his 8-year-old granddaughter, teaching her how to swim, AMI says. His wife told the institute, "He has come so far in his life."![David Axelrod]()
David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama, is known to be very sensitive about his gray mustache, AMI says.Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year
The American Mustache Institute has selected 18 finalists out of nearly 100 nominations for the 2009 "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year," recognizing the person best contributing to the mustached American way of life over the past year.
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- Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year
