John–

Eleven years ago—less than a week after performing at President Obama's
second inauguration—our 15-year-old daughter, Hadiya was tragically shot
and killed in a senseless act of gun violence.

Her death devastated us, and we miss her every day.

But we are still filled with hope.

Year after year, people come together across the country to honor our
daughter and the hundreds of people killed or wounded by gun violence
every single day.

We honor Hadiya's life today, on what would have been her 27th birthday,
and during National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange
weekend—which kicks off this Friday.

[ [link removed] ]Join our family by wearing orange June 7-9 at a #WearOrange event near
you.

[ [link removed] ]FIND A #WEARORANGE EVENT

After Hadiya's death, her friends launched Project Orange Tree to honor
her life and raise awareness about gun violence in our community. This is
how Wear Orange began.

They asked all of us to wear orange because hunters wear the color to warn
one another not to shoot—it's the color of safety that signals the need to
protect each other.

June 2, 2015—what would have been Hadiya's 18th birthday—was designated
the very first National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We now commemorate it
every year on the first Friday of June as we kick off Wear Orange weekend.

Whether it's worn by students in Montana, activists in New York, or our
family and all of Hadiya's loved ones in Chicago, the color orange honors
the more than 120 lives cut short and the hundreds more wounded by gun
violence every day.

We have a lot of work left to do before all our children are safe. But if
the last eleven years have shown us anything, it's that together, we can
save lives. [ [link removed] ]John, please join us June 7-9 for #WearOrange.

We must all show up and continue this work because everyone deserves a
future free from gun violence.

Thank you for wearing orange and being a part of this movement,

Cleopatra Cowley and Nate Pendleton
Parents of Hadiya Pendleton
Co-founders of [ [link removed] ]Hadiya's Foundation, dba Hadiya's Promise, a 501c3
organization


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