Reformed skinhead removes tattoos

In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 photo, former skinhead Bryon Widner folds his arms while resting at his home. For 16 years, Widner was a glowering, strutting, menacing vessel of hate - an \"enforcer\" for some of America's most notorious skinhead groups. Hellbent on destruction, he had symbols of racist violence tattooed on his face. Though his beliefs had changed, leaving the old life would not be easy when it was all he had known - and when his face remained a billboard of hate. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 photo, former skinhead Bryon Widner holds a photo at his home of him and his wife Julie Larsen taken before his facial tattoos were removed. After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father. But leaving the old life would not be easy when it was all he had known - and when his face remained a billboard of hate. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In this Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 photo, Bryon Widner, center left, and his wife are applauded in Pasadena, Calif., after the screening of a documentary film featuring their family. After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 photo, Bryon Widner hugs his 4-year-old son, Tyrson, at their home as his wife Julie watches. After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

This Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 photo shows former skinhead Bryon Widner at his home. For 16 years, Widner was a glowering, strutting, menacing vessel of hate - an \"enforcer\" for some of America's most notorious skinhead groups. Hellbent on destruction, he had symbols of racist violence tattooed on his face. Though his beliefs had changed, leaving the old life would not be easy when it was all he had known - and when his face remained a billboard of hate. Widner and his family are rebuilding their lives in an undisclosed location. He suffers migraines and other pains as a result of the extensive and painful surgeries to remove racist tattoos. But, he says, \"it's a small price to pay for being human again.\" (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)