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MORE INFO ABOUT WEAR ORANGE, 3RD ANNUAL NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY: In 2012, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago high school student who had just marched in President Obama’s reinauguaral parade was killed by gunfire in her hometown of Chicago. Friends of hers decided to honor her life by wearing orange–the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others. On June 2, 2015, what would have been Hadiya’s 18th birthday, more than 200 organizations and influencers asked people nationwide to join them by wearing orange to honor her life, the lives of the more than 90 Americans killed by gun violence and the hundreds more who are injured every day. President Obama, Julianne Moore, Russell Simmons, Sarah Silverman, the New York Mets, MTV, Cosmopolitan, Motown Records, Michael J. Fox, Questlove and Katie Couric are just a few of those who joined the #WearOrange campaign to raise awareness about the problem of gun violence. In just two years, the Wear Orange campaign, inspired by bold and creative teens who refused to be silent in the face of daily gun violence, has turned into a nationwide movement to honor the victims and survivors of gun violence in America.