Letter: Wear orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day
To the editor:
On January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student from the South Side of Chicago, marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade. One week later, Hadiya was …
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Letter: Wear orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day
To the editor:
On January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student from the South Side of Chicago, marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade. One week later, Hadiya was shot and killed on a playground in Chicago. She was only 15 years old.
Soon after Hadiya’s death, her friends commemorated her life by wearing orange, the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves. In June 2015, a broad coalition asked people nationwide to join what Hadiya’s friends started for the first annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day. This year, we will wear orange once again to call attention to our nation’s gun violence crisis and honor victims and survivors of gun violence.
Friday, June 6, on what would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 28th birthday, is 2025 National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
We all care that 45,000 Americans a year are lost to gun violence. The only way to fix a problem is to recognize it exists. Wear orange tomorrow, and show you care about ending gun violence.
Tony Morettini
46 Highland Rd
